Toward an Elderly Care Ontology for Knowledge Sharing among Care Workers

Abstract

This project aims to develop a software system for knowledge sharing among care workers in elderly care facilities. In order to provide a controlled vocabulary set for common description of the knowledge of care processes, the authors are currently building an elderly care ontology. It mainly defines the physical and cognitive activities in the care processes as temporal changes between states of target objects. This article also discusses the usages of the ontology in the knowledge sharing system, which include adaptive generation of hierarchical structures of the vocabulary.