SmartCare: A Mobile-Based Medication Adherence and Elderly Care Monitoring System

SmartCare is a Smart Medication and Care Monitoring application that was created to help older people keep track of their medicines and to help caregivers watch over their patients. SmartCare brings together medicine lists, timed reminders, confirmation of medicine taken and caregiver alerts all, in one easy‑to‑use app. The aim of SmartCare is to give adults a simple way to manage their health needs when they need help. The test of SmartCare showed that the medicine management part works well. Users can keep medicine details in SmartCare. The reminder part of SmartCare sends notifications at the times that users set even when the app is closed during the test. The feature that lets users confirm they have taken their medicine is also working inside SmartCare. The caregiver monitoring part of SmartCare helps caregivers coordinate care just as it was meant to. Together these parts give SmartCare a base for mixing scheduling and monitoring into one place. The test also found some parts of SmartCare that need work. The picture recognition for prescriptions in SmartCare is not. The emergency SOS button in SmartCare is only partly ready. Voice help in SmartCare still needs checks. SmartCare also needs picture recognition, reliable emergency alerts, easier use for everyone and more systematic tests before it can be used widely in real life. Overall SmartCare shows that putting medication management and caregiver support together in a platform is possible. Future work on SmartCare should look at making the system more reliable protecting data better making it easier to use and testing SmartCare on devices and operating systems. While SmartCare gives a start, for organized medicine routines we still need designed studies to know how well it works for long‑term medicine adherence.

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