University of Macau / Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences

University of Macau / Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences

生活於手機相機普及的今日，人們逐漸依賴隨手可得的行動裝置記錄生活，影像記錄儼然成為今日人們記錄生活的方式之一。本研究致力於提供使用者個人化之飲食管理系統，讓使用者在利用影像記錄飲食之時，改變自身的多樣性飲食攝取行為，讓個體更為健康。透過健康控制與社會認知理論，我們以影像後設資料的運用，增加自我效能，提供使用者方便的飲食記錄方式、以及更能掌握自身的營養狀況，讓使用者在記錄飲食的同時，還能改變自身飲食攝取行為，更能作為未來回憶飲食狀況之線索。在實驗設計上，我們邀請6位受試者使用本研究所開發的飲食管理系統，利用兩週的時間真實模擬生活中的飲食記錄環境。我們分析使用者實驗前後的自我效能問卷，以及所記錄的飲食記錄作為評估依據。實驗結果顯示，我們的系統能夠提升個體自我效能外，還能夠改變個體的飲食攝取行為。因此本研究有效促進自我效能感協助使用者在記錄生活，讓個體飲食更加健康 / In these days, as the popularity of smart phone grows, people tend to rely on mobile devices to record their lives. Digital photograph has become one of the ways people recording their daily lives. This research is aimed at providing users with personalized dietary management system, allowing users not only use photos to record their life, but also change their behavior to keep users in good health. Based on health control and social cognitive theory, this application utilizes the metadata of the images to enhance self-efficacy, to provide users an easier way to record their dietary and take better control of their own health. Furthermore, the data of the application allows users to recall the dietary and thus improves users’ dietary habits. For the experimental design, 6 subjects were invited to use rthis dietary management application, to record their daily dietary in two weeks. The subjects were asked to use the system, and answer a questionnaire related to the self-efficiency of their adequate dietary after using the application. Experimental results shows that this system not only helps users enhance individual self-efficacy in dietary but also change their dietary habit to achieve the goal of balanced dietary and in good health.

台灣高齡者之吞嚥困難解決方案的市場分析與商機 / It has been suggested that dysphagia affects approximately 8 % of the world’s population. People may be completely unable to swallow or may have trouble in safely swallowing liquids, foods, or saliva. When that happens, eating becomes a challenge. Recent studies have identified elderly people who require the long- term care as being at increased risk for dysphagia due to changes in the swallowing mechanism as aging occurs, it may affect 30% to 40% of the population at 65 years old or more. Taiwan is on course to go from being an “aging society” to an “aged society” and is experiencing a rapid increase in the number of older adults who require long-term care. Dysphagia is a prevalent difficulty among elderly people. Though increasing age facilitates subtle physiological changes in the swallow function, age-related diseases are significant factors in the presence and severity of dysphagia. Among elderly diseases and health complications, stroke and dementia reflect high rates of dysphagia. In both conditions, dysphagia is associated with nutritional deficits and increased risk of pneumonia. Recent efforts have suggested that long-term care organizations or nursing homes are also at risk for dysphagia and are associated deficits in nutritional status and increased pneumonia risk. Swallowing rehabilitation is an effective approach to increase safe oral intake in these populations and recent research has demonstrated extended benefits related to improved nutritional status and reduced pneumonia rates. Living with dysphagia is challenging, but it can be managed. For elderly people with dysphagia, it's important to continue the principle of maintaining hydration, calories and nutrients, especially protein and fluids. Texture-modified foods and thickened liquids can help achieve nutritional and hydration goals. This research provides the market analysis of dysphagia solution and its market opportunities in Taiwan. It concludes with a market plan to assess the viability of such a business opportunity. Well- structured management of dysphagia can not only provide elderly people’s physical, mental and social well-being but also brings the elderly people the pleasures of eating and the dignity during the last few years of their lives.