System for generating periodic reports generating trend analysis and intervention for monitoring daily living activity

A system for monitoring a user in a user living area, said system including a remote monitoring site, comprising:

• a system controller;
• an activity detection subsystem for monitoring a daily living activity of the user independently of physiological measurements, said activity detection subsystem having at least one detector device capable of being activated in response to an occurrence of said daily living activity and capable of determining at said user living area that said daily living activity has occurred to provide information to said system controller representative of said daily living activity, said system controller having a control circuit for generating a control signal in response to said information representative of said daily living activity;
• a control information communication channel for applying said control signal to said remote monitoring site;
• a generator for generating a trend analysis in accordance with said determined daily living activity;
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• circuitry for intervening in said user living area in accordance with said trend analysis.

A system for monitoring a user in a user living area, said system including a remote monitoring site, comprising:

• a programmable system controller;
• a programming device disposed at the remote monitoring site for programming said programmable system controller;
• an activity detection subsystem for monitoring a daily living activity of the user, said activity detection subsystem having at least one detector device capable of being activated in response to said occurrence of said daily living activity and capable of determining at said user living area that said daily living activity has occurred to provide to the programmable system controller information representative of said daily living activity, said programmable system controller having a control circuit for generating a control signal in response to said information representative of said daily living activity and according to said programming;
• a control information communication channel for applying said control signal to said remote monitoring site in accordance with said remotely programmed system controller;
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• circuitry for intervening in said user living area in accordance with said information representative of said daily living activity.

A method for monitoring a user in a user living area, in a system including a remote monitoring site, comprising the steps of:

• (a) programming from the remote monitoring site a system controller located at the user living area to perform first monitoring operations;
• (b) said first monitoring operations including monitoring a daily living activity of said user by said programmed system controller using an activity detection subsystem having a least one detector device capable of being activated in response to an occurrence of said daily living activity and capable of determining at said user living area that said daily living activity has occurred to provide to the system controller information representative of said daily living activity, said system controller having a control circuit for generating a control signal in response to said information representative of said daily living activity;
• (c) applying said control signal to said control remote monitoring site by way of a communication channel in accordance with said first monitoring operations;
• (d) altering decision protocols of the system controller from the remote monitoring site to perform second monitoring operations to determine at said user site that a daily living activity has occurred;
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• (e) applying a further control signal to said remote monitoring site by way of said communication channel in accordance with said second monitoring operations.