Homebased Telecare

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Home-basedTelecare

• Dr Nick Hine

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Outline

• Case for Home-Based Care
• Well Being Trend Capturing
• Monitoring Strategy
• Lifestyle Modeling
• QoL Issues
• QoL Questions
• Ethics

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Case for Home-based Telecare

• Older People value independence
• Living as close as possible to the life they
  have always led (Westlake Pearson, 1995)
• Older people experience increasing frailty and
  vulnerability
• Social Alarms support independence
• Home-based telecare assists in the prevention of
  loss of independence promote desired
  quality-of-life
• Pedigree
• Anchor Trust Study 1997-1999
• Millennium Homes Study 2000-2003

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Phases of Care

• Research Question
• How can we use technology to assist in the
  prediction of an event that could lead to loss of
  independence?

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Change in Well-Being? (1)

• Rapid Change Of Well Being

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Change in Well-Being? (2)

• Degree Of Change of Well Being

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Technology Deployment Principle
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Measuring Lifestyle Activity
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QoL Issues
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QoL Issues
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QoL Questions

• Writing

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Ethical Issues

• User
• Carer
• Data transportation and storage
• Gathering and presentation of research data