I-CARE - A Health Promotion System for Active Ageing

Maria Lúcia Kroeff Barbosa, Valter Roesler, Alexandro Bordignon, Johannes Doll, Eliseo Berni Reategui

2012

Abstract

I-Care is a health promotion system designed to: a) monitor vital signs of patients in real time; b) improve the patients’ knowledge of the disease, aiming to increase their motivation to develop healthy habits; c) motivate the patients through their interaction with doctors, friends and other patients with the same disease. The system works through the web, being suitable for many platforms. A group of three people was monitored during four weeks, generating some interesting conclusions about different ways to motivate people to get older in a more active and healthy way. The test subjects were from 56 to 67 years, both male and female, with hypertension, overweight and diabetes. The adopted methodology was both quantitative and qualitative. Results showed that the proposed system can improve significantly the health of the monitored patients, developing in the participants a better understanding about their health situation.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lúcia Kroeff Barbosa M., Roesler V., Bordignon A., Doll J. and Berni Reategui E. (2012). I-CARE - A Health Promotion System for Active Ageing . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-8565-07-5, pages 331-336. DOI: 10.5220/0003917703310336

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu12,
author={Maria Lúcia Kroeff Barbosa and Valter Roesler and Alexandro Bordignon and Johannes Doll and Eliseo Berni Reategui},
title={I-CARE - A Health Promotion System for Active Ageing},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2012},
pages={331-336},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003917703310336},
isbn={978-989-8565-07-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - I-CARE - A Health Promotion System for Active Ageing
SN - 978-989-8565-07-5
AU - Lúcia Kroeff Barbosa M.
AU - Roesler V.
AU - Bordignon A.
AU - Doll J.
AU - Berni Reategui E.
PY - 2012
SP - 331
EP - 336
DO - 10.5220/0003917703310336