REMOTE MONITORING OF HEALTH-STATUS OF THE ELDERLY AT HOME - A MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT ON AGING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW-SOUTH-WALES
REMOTE MONITORING OF HEALTH-STATUS OF THE ELDERLY AT HOME - A MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT ON AGING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW-SOUTH-WALES
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DOI：
10.1016/0020-7101(95)01139-6
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发表时间：
1995-10-01
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LOVELL, NH
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作者：
CELLER, BG;EARNSHAW, W;LOVELL, NH
本文讨论了一个多学科的研究项目和相关的现场试验的设计和实施，以测试的假设，功能性健康状况之间的老年人可以准确地确定远程连续监测相对简单的参数，测量参与者和他们的环境之间的相互作用。在这项研究中，我们提出，在这些简单的措施，如流动性，睡眠模式，以及利用烹饪，洗涤和厕所设施的变化，可以识别功能健康状况的变化。该项目的主要最终目标之一将是自动促进适当、及时和具有成本效益的医疗和社区服务干预，以帮助降低发病率并保持老年人独立的高质量生活。有针对性的干预将减少对高成本医疗服务的需求。这将对经济有重大的潜在影响，有助于控制和降低为老年人提供健康护理服务的成本。
This paper discusses the design and implementation of a multidisciplinary research project and associated field trials to test the hypothesis that functional health status amongst the elderly can be accurately determined remotely by continuously monitoring relatively simple parameters that measure the interaction between participants and their environment. In this study we propose that changes in such simple measures as mobility, sleep patterns, and utilisation of cooking, washing and toilet facilities, can identify changes in functional health status. One of the primary end goals of the project will be to automatically prompt appropriate, timely and cost-effective intervention of medical and community based services to help reduce morbidity and maintain an independent high quality of life for the elderly. Targeted intervention will diminish the demand for high cost medical services. This will have large potential economic implications in helping to contain and reduce the increasing cost of providing health care services to the aged.