Europe's social agenda for the “active elderly” is based upon a series of programs that
provide a flexible infrastructure for their lives so that they are motivated, engaged in lifelong …

Due to higher life expectancy, the number of older people continues to increase, and with it
the number of cases of chronic diseases. Estimates indicate that the percentage of people …

Today, the healthcare monitoring is not limited to take place in primary care facilities simply
due to deployment of ICT. However, to support an ICT-based health monitoring, proper …

This chapter describes a set of technologies (projects and scientific works) with relevance in
care and medical monitoring for application outside the clinical context. The number of older …

A disponibilidade tecnológica aliada a interesses de vária ordem entre os quais científico,
técnico e comercial, tornou hoje possível a realização de redes de sensores sem fios …