"Medical system for monitoring geriatric-psychiatric patients in an ambient living environment"
First Claim
1. A medical system for monitoring a geriatric-psychiatric patient in an ambient living environment, wherein the patient exhibits behavior events associated with a geriatric-psychiatric condition, said medical system comprising:
- a monitor located at said ambient living environment for continuously monitoring at least one of said behavior events and for generating monitoring data representing a number of occurrences of said at least one behavior event;
a system center located remote from said ambient living environment, said system center having a system center reception device to which said monitoring data are supplied by said monitor, a memory for storing said monitoring data, a memory for storing a reference value for said at least one behavior event, an evaluation unit for comparing said monitoring data to said reference value and for generating an alarm signal if the number of occurrences of said at least one behavior event represented by said monitoring data upwardly exceeds said reference value;
a reception device located at a person in a response chain responsible for taking remedial action on behalf of said patient; and
said system central also including a routing device for routing said alarm signal to said reception device of said person in said response chain and for generating a further alarm signal if said person in said response chain fails to respond to said alarm signals supplied to said reception device.
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Abstract
A medical system for continuously monitoring geriatric-psychiatric patients in a home environment, a senior'"'"'s home or in a nursing home, has a device for acquiring events at the patient such as confused states, falls, aggressivity, wandering, immobility and/or medication side effects, a device for transmitting the acquired data of the events to a system center, and a reception device at a monitoring person. The system center has a memory for the data of the acquired events and predetermined undesired events, an evaluation device for the data with a comparator for comparing the data to the stored reference values of the predetermined undesired events, an alarm device for generating an alarm signal, and a routing device for forwarding the alarm signal to a reception device of a person to be alerted in a process (response) chain.
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1. A medical system for monitoring a geriatric-psychiatric patient in an ambient living environment, wherein the patient exhibits behavior events associated with a geriatric-psychiatric condition, said medical system comprising:
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a monitor located at said ambient living environment for continuously monitoring at least one of said behavior events and for generating monitoring data representing a number of occurrences of said at least one behavior event;
a system center located remote from said ambient living environment, said system center having a system center reception device to which said monitoring data are supplied by said monitor, a memory for storing said monitoring data, a memory for storing a reference value for said at least one behavior event, an evaluation unit for comparing said monitoring data to said reference value and for generating an alarm signal if the number of occurrences of said at least one behavior event represented by said monitoring data upwardly exceeds said reference value;
a reception device located at a person in a response chain responsible for taking remedial action on behalf of said patient; and
said system central also including a routing device for routing said alarm signal to said reception device of said person in said response chain and for generating a further alarm signal if said person in said response chain fails to respond to said alarm signals supplied to said reception device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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