Monitoring Food Intake in an Aging Population: A Survey on Technological Solutions

Proceedings

Murillo, Juan M.¹  Mendes, David²  Garcia-Alonso, José³  Moguel, Enrique⁴  Berrocal, Javier⁵ 

[1] Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.;Presented at the 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2018), Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, 4–7 December 2018;These authors contributed equally to this work.;University of Extremadura, 10004 Cáceres, Spain;University of Évora, Évora, Portugal

关键词: food monitoring intake;    eldercare;    iHealth;    survey;   

DOI  :  10.3390/proceedings2190445

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

The aging of the population has increased the research efforts focused on eldercare. In this area, nutrition is a topic of particular interest. A significant number of problems related with aging have their origin in a deficient nutrition. Many elders suffer changes in their nutritional patterns and these changes can cause serious deterioration of their physical condition. Therefore, to be able to address nutritional problems in the elderly, their nutritional patterns must be recorded and analyzed in an easy and efficient way. From a technological point of view, numerous works focus on monitoring the food intake, not only of elders but also of the general population. However, these works usually do not take into account the problems associated with an aging population. In this paper we present a survey of existing technological solutions for monitoring food intake. The analyzed solution are categorized based on their technological implementation and their adaptation to the needs of an aging population.

【 授权许可】

CC BY