Title
Long-term care: how to improve the quality of life with mobile and e-health services
Abstract
In the last decade, ageing has become a worldwide increasing phenomenon leading to an increased need for specialised help. Continuous monitoring, training and rehabilitation improve the quality of life of older adults and discard the risk of depression and social isolation. To this end, the use of mobile and e-health personalised services at home and in residential long-term care facilities can help to stabilise the health conditions of the subjects, in terms of physical, mental, and social capabilities. In this context, we propose a set of personalised monitoring and rehabilitation services based on mobile, wearable, free contact, and touch screen technologies designed to provide an integrated care and monitoring programme for elderly frail subjects. We evaluated the proposed solutions by deploying the services in a nursing home in Italy and defined customised protocols to involve both guests (primary users) and nursing care personnel (secondary users). In this paper, we present technical details of the proposed solutions and the results obtained by the recently conducted surveys on the Quality of Experience and user acceptance of both user categories after 4 months from the deployment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/WiMOB.2018.8589157
2018 14th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob)
Keywords
Field
DocType
ageing,specialised help,continuous monitoring,training,older adults,social isolation,e-health personalised services,long-term care facilities,health conditions,physical capabilities,social capabilities,personalised monitoring,rehabilitation services,mobile contact,wearable contact,free contact,screen technologies,integrated care,monitoring programme,elderly frail subjects,nursing home,primary users,secondary users,touch screen technologies,nursing care personnel,mobile services,mental capabilities,time 4.0 month
Rehabilitation,Software deployment,Social isolation,Wearable computer,Computer science,Integrated care,Computer network,Nursing care,Long-term care,Quality of experience,Medical emergency
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2160-4886
978-1-5386-6877-1
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Franca Delmastro121119.88
Cristina Dolciotti201.01
Filippo Palumbo313216.70
Massimo Magrini4106.61
Flavio Di Martino502.03
Davide La Rosa6235.00
umberto barcaro701.35