Towards An Application Architecture For A Smart Online Service Network Platform For The Elderly

Online Social and Service Network Platforms for supporting elderly people with respect to their health and well-being have been discussed on the conceptual level by various authors. Here, in particular the so-called transition age between 55 and 75 is important and therefore has also been addressed, e.g. with respect to user interface (UI) requirements. As a logical next step, in this paper an application architecture for such a kind of online service network platform is proposed, designed consequently using state-of-the-art concepts like server-side JavaScript, NoSQL databases and machine learning. Since only few studies about such kind of modern software architectures exist in the literature, this is a first step towards analyzing their implications for web application development.