The increase in life expectancy and the reduction of fertility rates contribute to a global aging, in Brazil the number of people over 60 years went from 3 million in 1960 to more than 20 million in 2010, with that another number that is increasing Is the number of elderly people living alone, from 1.1 million in 1992 to 3.7 million in 2012. This work proposes the creation of a technological resource to help and monitor the elderly who live alone. Thefeature createdconsists of anapplication for

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... smartphones with Android operating system that must be installed on the devices of the elderly and its responsible,allowingthe sending of warnings through texts of instantaneous display and warningsof automatic display at dates and times set by the person in charge, It also has options for making video calls and for consulting the location of the elderly. The application also uses the smartphone's accelerometer to detect when the elderly suffer a fall and notify the responsible through an SMS.