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Remembranza Pills: Using Alexa to Remind the Daily Medicine Doses to Elderly

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Gerontechnology (IWoG 2019)

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European countries are facing a population widespread ageing. The percentage of third age inhabitants is becoming higher, specially in rural areas, where older adults demand special services in order to improve their life, notably when they live alone. This way, some tasks like medicine management can be a very hard day-to-day challenge. In this paper, Remembranza Pills is introduced. This is a platform that supports elderly at daily medicine takes using Alexa. The system reminds users the medicines and pills that have to be taken in each moment of the day using a web platform to manage the prescriptions. In this manner, medical staff and relatives can keep control over consumed doses.

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This work has been partially funded by the 4IE Project (0045-4IE-4-P) and 4IE+ project (0499-4IE-PLUS-4-E) funded by the Interreg V-A Espańa-Portugal (POCTEP) 2014–2020 program, by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (RTI2018-094591-B-I00), by the Department of Economy and Infrastructure of the Government of Extremadura (GR18112, IB18030), and by the European Regional Development Fund. The RoQME Integrated Technical Project has also funded this research; RoQME was funded by the European Union’s H2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No. 732410, in the form of financial support to third parties of the RobMoSys Project.

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    Manuel Jesús-Azabal, José Agustín Medina-Rodríguez, Javier Durán-García & Daniel García-Pérez

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Jesús-Azabal, M., Medina-Rodríguez, J.A., Durán-García, J., García-Pérez, D. (2020). Remembranza Pills: Using Alexa to Remind the Daily Medicine Doses to Elderly. In: García-Alonso, J., Fonseca, C. (eds) Gerontechnology. IWoG 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1185. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41494-8_15

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