ABSTRACT

There are increasing change and development of information in healthcare systems. Given the increase in aging population, managers are in need oftrue and timely information when making decision. The aim of this study was to investigate the current status of the health information management system for the elderly health sector in Nigeria. The complexity of the meaning of the concept of ageing, the nature of age-related health problems, the current trend of population ageing, the social impact of HIV and AIDS, and the prevailing socio-economic situation ofthe country pose new challenges in the care and well-being ofthe older persons. These factors might have negative or positive impact on the quality of life of the older people and influence their perceptions about the ageing phenomenon. Governments and health professionals are challenged . to develop programs and interventions that would enable the older persons to enhance or maintain their quality oflife. This research work aim at designing, developing and implementing ■ information management system for aged people health care. The main objective is to convert a manually operated system into automated system. The objectives of the study were to describe the live experiences ofthe older persons ofNigeria, the meaning attached to ageing or being old in Nigeria from the perspective of older persons themselves, to create a system that will lessen the burden of aged people’s health care, to promote fast and reliable health care system for aged people, to automatically conduct an inventory of the aged people health care. The adopted research methodology for this project aged people health care information system is the waterfall model. The waterfall model is a popular version ofthe systems development life cycle model for software engineering. Often considered the classic approach to the systems development life cycle, the waterfall model describes a development method that is rigid and linear