Review on Fall-Detection and Miscellaneous Functionalities Strategies for Senior Citizen Mobile Application

Abstract

With the ever-growing demand and use of smartphones, the industry has found senior citizens as a prime demographic for their products. However, many of the applications developed for smartphones are not very intuitive for the elderly. Most applications have complex functionalities that the elderly does not understand, and so they abstain from using such useful applications, or seek help of others for it. The growing stack of technology, and the advances in mobile phones can help solve this problem. However, very few applications exist that focus for aid of the elderly. We aim to create an application that can help senior citizens in their day-to-day activities and also provide emergency services, such as sending location information when fall is detected. This paper discusses the present state of application development for senior citizens, as well as some fall detection algorithms. The papers we studied focus on the points that need to be kept in mind while developing applications for such demographic. With the help of fall detection algorithms, we aim to provide a safety feature, which would inform the user’s emergency contacts when a fall is detected. We also aim to provide miscellaneous functionalities, such as medicine reminder, notebook, to-do lists and emergency SOS button within the application.