Maintaining elderly people at home with a telemedicine platform solution: the QuoVADIS project...9th World Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG), June 18-21, 2014, Taipei, Taiwan.
Purpose Unnecessary interventions to rule out non-life-threatening situations among the elderly are increasing by number and cost. This has an impact not only on the helpers (family, caretakers or friends) but also on the ambulance/fire/emergency doctor/volunteers' services whose policies and budget...
| Published in: | Gerontechnology Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 80 - 81 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=180444709&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 180444709 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 15691101 904R jtl: Gerontechnology issn: 15691101 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2014 Special Issue vid: 13 iid: 2 pid: 54298 pub: International Society for Gerontechnology artinfo: ui: 180444709 180444709 180444709 10.4017/gt.2014.13.02.366.00 180444709 ppf: 80 ppct: 1 formats: tig: atl: Maintaining elderly people at home with a telemedicine platform solution: the QuoVADIS project...9th World Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG), June 18-21, 2014, Taipei, Taiwan. aug: au: OZGULER, A. LOEB, T. BAER, M. affil: SAMU 92, APHP, Hôpital Universitaire Raymond Poincaré, Garches, France sug: subj: Telemedicine In Old Age Home Health Care In Old Age Unnecessary Procedures Persons with Disabilities Cognition Disorders Telemetry Health Services Misuse Congresses and Conferences Taiwan Taiwan Aged Aged, 80 and Over Aged: 65+ years Aged, 80 & over ab: Purpose Unnecessary interventions to rule out non-life-threatening situations among the elderly are increasing by number and cost. This has an impact not only on the helpers (family, caretakers or friends) but also on the ambulance/fire/emergency doctor/volunteers' services whose policies and budgets are not prepared for unnecessary interventions. QuoVADIS was a project aimed at improving Homecare Services and providing help for the disabled, elderly, and cognitively impaired, funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) from 2008 to 2010. It had a telemedicine platform including a pulse sensor, an actimetry sensor and a robot equipped with camera and microphone. One of the project's main goals was to assess a remote monitoring system teleoperated by emergency dispatchers to rule out non-life-threatening situations. Method This project was assessed from the end-users' point of view: among many parameters, user friendliness and feasibility were recorded according to 4 different scenarios in a smart-home environment. Results & Discussion Eight emergency dispatchers routinely working as teleoperators in a tele-health alarm center tested the 4 different scenarios performed by actors in the smart-home environment. The results show a reduced time in the detection of emergency situations (fall, bradycardia, and "power off" alarms) compared with routine tele-health alarm systems. The emergency dispatchers appreciated the system as a whole (mean score= 6.75 on a scale from 1 to 8). They suggested improving the appearance of the robot and upgrading the quality of its transmitted videos and remote monitoring. Conclusion Introducing a teleoperated robot with the usual sensors and alarms can add value to the detection of emergency situations among the elderly, thus helping to avoid unnecessary interventions. However, this system needs some improvements before it can be implemented. The above solution paves the way towards a reduction in the number of unnecessary interventions, which are today decided merely to rule out life-threatening situations. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: abstract proceedings research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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