Healthcare system for elders with automatic drug label detection

Nowadays, since the medical technologies have been rapidly improved, the population of elderly persons has been rapidly increasing. Unfortunately, due to new born baby crisis problem, working age's population has been continuing decreasing. In this era, the elderly have to deal with a new problem which is a lack of caregivers. Consequently, with minor health issue, the elders must stay at a hospital or a charter house since hiring personal curator to take care of at home cost lots of money. The proposed model has been developed in order to give the elders better quality of life by solving major problems which are medicine taking and monitoring issue. The system focuses on medicine taking system and it can be operated with a standard device that anybody can afford, an Android smartphone with the Internet connection. To investigate an efficiency of the pilot system, 20 families that live with the elders was asked to try using the proposed application for one month. The result shows that with this system, the elders with minor health issue can live their life in their own house comfortably.