Abstract
Electronic safeguard systems are developed to provide wandering senile dementia patients a safe environment in their everyday life at home and special nursing homes. They are designed on the basic concept that the patients with declined mental capability may peacefully spend their rest time without any infringement of their freedom, which is most essential for their human dimity. The systems, which individually function to safeguard the patients against possible outdoor dangers, are connected to a network system through telecommunication lines. The system for the care of senile elderly patients at special nursing homes can be set up at any place near the enterances by utilizing power distribution or telecommunication lines without laying particular signal transmission cables. The system for the home care is designed compact with all the necessary functions including alarms. Informations about doors from which a patient goes out are transmitted to helpers at a distance by wireless interphone, FM-receiver or radio paging system. In addition, it is possible to guarantee the health and safety of patients by monitoring the operational state of each system at the center of operation with a network cooperation of helpers and neighbors through telecommunication lines. Thus, the helpers are ensured more released from physical and psychological burdens so that they can devote themselves to the care of senile elderly men, thereby improving their patients' comfort and human dimity.
