Improvement of the QOL of elderly people utilizing ICT

抄録

We are researching ways to improve the QOL of elderly people living in care facility, or at home by utilizing information and communication technology (ICT). As part of that, we digitize old photos of the elderly, and upload these photos to the cloud service. Then, we have built an environment that can be utilized these data in a various media types for care services. Specifically, memories of the elderly are converted to interactive digital photo album like a video slide show, and care staffs, family members and volunteers use these media for providing topics while active listening with the elderly. We also constructed environment that allows remote active listening by using a video call while sharing the above-mentioned media in order to introduce to increase the chances of communication of the elderly.