SCC-CIVIC-PG Track A:CaReDeX: Enabling Disaster Resilience in Aging Communities via a Secure Data Exchange

SCC-CIVIC-PG 轨道 A：CaReDeX：通过安全数据交换实现老龄化社区的抗灾能力

• 批准号: 2044107
• 负责人: Nalini Venkatasubramanian
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-01-15 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2044107&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; CIVIC; PG; Track; CaReDeX

Disasters over the years have shown that a disproportionate number of older adults suffer fatalities and injuries during extreme events. A large number of older adults live in age-friendly communities and senior health facilities (SHFs) that promote independent living. During a crisis, older adults are often unable to shelter safely in place or evacuate on their own due to a range of physical conditions (need for life-sustaining equipment, impaired mobility) and cognitive afflictions (e.g. dementia, Alzheimer’s). Seamless access to information about the living facilities (e.g., floor plans, operational status, number of residents) and about the residents (e.g.,health conditions such as need for dialysis, oxygen, personal objects to reduce anxiety) can empower first responders to improve response outcomes during disasters. Such information, typically held by caregivers and in the logs maintained by the organizations, is inaccessible and/or unavailable at the time of response. This proposal seeks to create a novel community contributed data-exchange platform, entitled CareDEX, that will empower organizations to readily assimilate, ingest, store and exchange information, both apriori and in real-time, with response agencies to protect and care for the elderly in extreme events. Using CareDEX, SHFs will be able to share information about an individual’s changing health conditions, their personalized needs and identify those in need of specialized triage and critical care. Given the sensitive nature of personal information, e.g. health profiles, ability status, CareDEX will incorporate techniques to balance the need for individual privacy with authorized release of information to responders when needed. The pilot 4-month planning effort will involve 2 workshops and a demonstration pilot study that will focus on bringing stakeholders from the emergency response and senior living communities to identify specific information needs, design protocols for collection and sharing of such data, and explore privacy/security concerns. The workshops and pilot will address simulated emergency scenarios, e.g a wildfire event requiring evacuation of seniors and a complex event when the fire occurs during a pandemic such as Covid19. The goal of the workshops would be to help identify the requirements which will guide the research, design, and development of CareDEX. The planning workshops will engage a diverse group of students and postdoctoral researchers and thereby contribute to the education of the next generation of citizens in interdisciplinary topics that are relevant to communities worldwide.This project is in response to Track B - CIVIC Innovation Challenge - Resilience to Natural Disasters a collaboration with NSF and the Department of Homeland Security.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

多年来的灾难表明，在极端事件中遭受伤亡的老年人数量不成比例。大量老年人生活在有利于老年人生活的社区和促进独立生活的高级卫生设施(SHF)。在危机期间，由于一系列身体状况(需要维持生命的设备、行动不便)和认知疾病(如痴呆症、阿尔茨海默氏症)，老年人往往无法安全地在原地避难或自行撤离。无缝获取有关生活设施的信息(例如，平面图、运行状态、居民人数)和有关居民的信息(例如，需要透析、氧气、减少焦虑的个人物品等健康状况)，可以增强急救人员在灾难期间改善应对结果的能力。这类信息通常由护理人员持有，并保存在各组织维护的日志中，在作出反应时无法获取和/或无法获得。这项提议旨在创建一个新的社区贡献的数据交换平台，名为CareDEX，将使各组织能够预先和实时地随时吸收、摄取、存储和交换信息，并与应对机构一起在极端事件中保护和照顾老年人。使用CareDEX，SHF将能够分享关于个人不断变化的健康状况、他们的个性化需求的信息，并识别那些需要专门分诊和危重护理的人。鉴于个人信息的敏感性质，例如健康概况、能力状态，CareDEX将采用各种技术，在个人隐私需求与必要时授权向响应者发布信息之间取得平衡。为期4个月的试点规划工作将包括2个讲习班和一项示范试点研究，重点是让应急响应和老年生活社区的利益攸关方确定具体的信息需求，设计收集和共享此类数据的协议，并探讨隐私/安全问题。研讨会和试点将处理模拟的紧急情况，例如需要疏散老年人的野火事件，以及在大流行期间发生火灾时的复杂事件，如Covid19。研讨会的目标将是帮助确定指导CareDEX研究、设计和开发的要求。规划研讨会将吸引不同的学生和博士后研究人员，从而有助于在与世界各地社区相关的跨学科主题中对下一代公民进行教育。该项目是对与NSF和国土安全部合作的轨道B-公民创新挑战-对自然灾害的复原力的响应。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。