I-Corps: Safe@Home

I-Corps：安全@Home

• 批准号: 1259172
• 负责人: Linda Camp
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1259172&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Safe; Home

This project develops sensor technology for elders to help them stay at home longer and defer or deny a shift to institutional care. The technologies developed in this project offer a unique design perspective with a dual focus on elder and caregiver. The core design philosophy is on the elder as a social individual in a network of caregivers and a stable physical environment. The core technology is a communications hub creating both a personal area network and connecting this network outside the home with redundant connections on multiple channels (wifi, cellular, landlines). Inside the home, the hub coordinates the risk-specific modules. The multi-sensor modules can be deployed or removed as risks change. These modules generate alters to the hub which then sends them to caregivers first, community second, and first responders or call centers according to the preferences expressed during installation. The advantages include simplicity and reliability. The sensors are unobtrusive; there is no stigma. The purpose of each module is clear: falling, wandering, or isolation.The societal and commercial impacts of this project are grounded in demographics. By 2030, the over 65 population in the United States will roughly double from the current 38 million to 72 million. Current models of caregiving will not scale to meet this need without appropriate technological mediation. A common solution to decrease the cost of caregiving is Aging in Place. Aging in place improves perceived quality of life, empowers social support networks, and reduces health care complaints and costs in comparison to institutionalization. Technologies produced through this project will help elders to age in place. The design of this technology offers an approach that will enhance scientific and technological understanding of this deeply socially embedded challenge.

该项目为老年人开发传感器技术，帮助他们更长时间地呆在家里，推迟或拒绝转向机构护理。该项目开发的技术提供了一个独特的设计视角，同时关注老年人和照顾者。核心设计理念是将老年人作为一个社会个体，在一个由照顾者组成的网络和一个稳定的物理环境中。其核心技术是一个通信枢纽，既可以创建一个个人区域网络，又可以通过多个通道（WiFi、蜂窝、固定电话）上的冗余连接将该网络连接到家庭之外。在家庭内部，集线器协调特定风险模块。多传感器模块可根据风险变化进行部署或移除。这些模块生成对集线器的更改，然后集线器根据安装期间表达的偏好将其发送给护理人员第一，社区第二，以及第一响应者或呼叫中心。优点包括简单性和可靠性。传感器是不显眼的;没有耻辱。每个模块的目的都很明确：跌倒、流浪或孤立。这个项目的社会和商业影响是基于人口统计的。到2030年，美国65岁以上的人口将从目前的3800万增加到7200万。如果没有适当的技术调解，目前的生产模式将无法扩大规模以满足这一需求。一个常见的解决方案，以降低成本的老化是在地方。与机构化养老相比，就地养老提高了人们对生活质量的感知，增强了社会支持网络的能力，减少了医疗投诉和成本。通过该项目产生的技术将帮助老年人就地养老。这项技术的设计提供了一种方法，将加强对这一深刻的社会根源的挑战的科学和技术的理解。