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Japan has experienced a rapid increase in the number of the geriatric population in the past few decades. This has raised the necessity for healthcare resources, making IoT applied in elderly care a huge trend in the country. The application of IoT in the field has made a huge contribution to tackling the problem, however, previous studies and current IoT applications regarding the topic fail to consider another arising issue --elderly-to-elderly care. Elderly-to-elderly care is the condition in which a caregiver is also a senior person due to the decrease of the younger population in the country. The paper evaluates prevailing systems and reexamines studies conducted on the subject in the past. Based on the research, this paper proposes an elderly monitoring system architecture for developing IoT applications in elderly care satisfactory of the condition.