Thriving the ills of elderly people using big data analytics

Health and mobility of elderly people is becoming more and more important issue in Indian's ageing societies. As families get smaller, more aged people live alone. Retirement homes are now big business, with even big realtors venturing into it. These premium places offer facilities similar to top-end apartments, with the only qualification being an age of 50 or above. The ultimate aim is to support people with less supported or caretakers and to phase-out traditional old-age homes. Many frail elders are admitted to free homes run by NGO's by their relatives. To alleviate this problem, Big data plays major role in monitoring the elderly persons for earlier diagnosis of health problem. Big Data has a large potential in healthcare. It gathers all the vital signs of the individual and if any abnormalities are noted it is been send to experts for observation which are received by wearable sensors. These observations are noted by the experts and in turn the medications are sent through a mail or message to the patient concerned. Elders are precautiously monitored, diagnosed and medicated In advance so, that they live healthy till their last breath.