Author : Manjula G 1
Date of Publication :25th May 2018
Abstract: Earlier, people would live in joint families where atleast one person used to be there at home to take care of aged people. In modern days, people prefer nuclear families where there are no one present to take care of aged people and patients due to their busy working schedule. To overcome this, they need to appoint a caregiver to take care of the patients for their diet, hygiene, medication etc. Payments given to the caregivers will affect their savings. To overcome such problems a model is needed. This model medicates the patients and aged people automatically to inform them regarding medication in time as prescribed by the Doctor. This is done by presetting the prescribed time and comparing it with RTC time. When they are equal, tablets are dispensed. The patient is given sufficient time to take the tablets. If the patient fails, a message is sent to the caregiver informing about the failure. Thus the proposed model is implemented for aged people, patients, bed-ridden and the illiterates to ensure medication at right time and simultaneously notify the caregiver if patient fails to take medications
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