To provide a monitoring support apparatus or the like that mitigates a load of patrol monitoring work of a monitoring person for an object person.SOLUTION: A monitoring support apparatus 100 comprises: a measuring instrument 110 that measures a plurality of nursed persons 1 through 12 and a nursing person 50 by irradiating a detection wave to the plurality of nursed persons 1 through 12 as a plurality of object persons and the nursing person 50 as a monitoring person； a position identifying circuit that identifies positions of the plurality of nursed persons 1 through 12 and a position of the nursing person 50 on the basis of information obtained by the measuring instrument 110； and a decision circuit that determines at least one selected from a group composed of a nursed person N1 as a next time object person being the object person which is suitable for the nursing person 50 to next patrol of the plurality of nursed persons 1 through 12 and moving routes R1 of the nursing person 50 from the position of the nursing person 50 to the nursed person N1 on the basis of a position of each of the plurality of nursed persons 1 through 12 and the position of the nursing person 50 identified by the position identifying circuit.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 7【課題】対象者に対する監視者の見回り監視作業の負担を軽減する監視支援装置等を提供する。【解決手段】監視支援装置１００は、複数の対象者としての複数の被看護者１から１２および監視者としての看護者５０に向けて、探知波を照射することで、複数の被看護者１から１２および看護者５０を計測する計測器１１０と、計測器１１０にて得られた情報に基づいて、複数の被看護者１から１２の位置および看護者５０の位置を特定する位置特定回路と、位置特定回路にて特定された複数の被看護者１から１２の各々の位置および看護者５０の位置に基づいて、複数の被看護者１から１２のうち看護者５０が次に見回るのに適した対象者である次回対象者としての被看護者Ｎ１、および、看護者５０の位置から被看護者Ｎ１までの看護者５０の移動経路Ｒ１からなる群から選択される少なくとも一方を決定する決定回路と、を備える。【選択図】図７
