Advancing age comes with unavoidable chronic illnesses which if poorly managed can results in either disability or loss of life. Cardiovascular disease and diabetes are more prevalent in the retirement age group. Good management of these condition at home requires continued monitoring. This improves health and wellness and reduces the occurences of disease complications.
Care for frail individuals and those needing assisted living by care-givers, is a noble occupation that requires love and dedication. Daily medical examination to assess health and wellness requires collection and recording of patients' biometric data, which is shared internally with senior nursing staff and externally with consulting doctors respectively.
The manual performance of these clinical activities has numerous inherent operational risk.