A service-based system for malnutrition prevention and self-management

TY - JOUR

T1 - A service-based system for malnutrition prevention and self-management

AU - Taweel, Adel

AU - Barakat, Lina

AU - Miles, Simon

AU - Cioara, Tudor

AU - Anghel, Ionut

AU - Tawil, Abdel-Rahman H.

AU - Salomie, Ioan

PY - 2016/4/16

Y1 - 2016/4/16

N2 - Malnutrition is considered one of the root causes of the occurrence of other diseases. It is particularly common in the ageing population, where it requires more efficient handling and management to enable longer home independent living. However, to achieve this, a number of related challenges need to be overcome, especially those related to management of health and disease let alone other social and logistical barriers. This paper presents the design of a distributed system that enables homecare management in the context of self-feeding and malnutrition prevention through balanced nutritional intake. The design employs a service-based system that incorporates a number of services including monitoring of activities, nutritional reasoning for assessing feeding habits, diet recommending food planning, and marketplace invocation for automating food shopping to meet dietary requirements. The solution is deployed in a small pilot in 12 elder adult houses that, in early results, demonstrates its holistic user-centred scalable approach for malnutrition self-management.

AB - Malnutrition is considered one of the root causes of the occurrence of other diseases. It is particularly common in the ageing population, where it requires more efficient handling and management to enable longer home independent living. However, to achieve this, a number of related challenges need to be overcome, especially those related to management of health and disease let alone other social and logistical barriers. This paper presents the design of a distributed system that enables homecare management in the context of self-feeding and malnutrition prevention through balanced nutritional intake. The design employs a service-based system that incorporates a number of services including monitoring of activities, nutritional reasoning for assessing feeding habits, diet recommending food planning, and marketplace invocation for automating food shopping to meet dietary requirements. The solution is deployed in a small pilot in 12 elder adult houses that, in early results, demonstrates its holistic user-centred scalable approach for malnutrition self-management.

KW - Serviced-based design

KW - Malnutrition prevention

KW - Diet self-management

KW - Older adults

KW - Distributed systems

U2 - 10.1016/j.csi.2016.03.005

DO - 10.1016/j.csi.2016.03.005

M3 - Article

SN - 0920-5489

JO - Computer Standards & Interfaces

JF - Computer Standards & Interfaces

ER -