Mobile Application for Healthcare Planning of Elderly People

Abstract

Currently, Thailand population structure trend has been going to be aged society. There are around 7 million elders in Thailand which is correspondence to 10% of the whole entire Thai people and tend to be increase. From a rapid development of smart mobile phone, the associated mobile phone applications have been developed accordingly. Nowadays, both government and private sections have developed the mobile phone applications which comprise with necessary functions for elders use such as calendar to record events, notification systems finding nearby hospitals, recommend interesting activities for elder, emergency call etc. From mobile phone application assessments for health planning and management of elder, results reveal that usability is good and the overall is good.