Technology Supports for Home Health Care Providers

专门的基于计算机的保健支持技术在满足家庭家庭保健提供者为老年人提供护理方面的需求方面具有巨大的潜力。拟议的系统将提供简化的多媒体说明和自行提醒，以帮助家庭照顾者为家中的老年人提供保健服务。据推测，通过简化的便携式计算机支持系统提供包括文本、音频、图片和视频说明在内的个性化护理说明，可以改善由家庭成员照顾者的压力和疲劳来衡量的提供者的生活质量。第一阶段的目的是1)确定系统的功能、接口和技术要求，2)设计和开发一个功能齐全的原型系统，以及3)与家庭照顾者一起对该系统进行试点测试。这些活动旨在为第二阶段研究奠定基础，在这一阶段，第一阶段的研究结果将在软件再开发工作中实施，以产生适合于向社区老年人提供保健服务的照顾者在纵向研究中进行扩展实地测试的第二阶段原型。

Specialized computer-based health care support technology has great potential for addressing the needs of family home health care providers in providing care to seniors. The proposed system will be designed to provide simplified multi-media instructions and self-initiated reminders to assist family caregivers with providing health care services to seniors in the home. It is hypothesized that provider quality of life, as measured by the stress and fatigue of family member caregivers, can be improved through the availability of personalized care instructions including text, audio, picture, and video instructions via a simplified portable computer support system. Phase I is designed to 1) determine the functional, interface and technical requirements of the system, 2) design and develop a fully functioning prototype system, and 3) pilot testing of the system with family caregivers. These activities are intended to set the stage for Phase II research, where Phase I findings will be implemented in a software redevelopment effort to produce a Phase II prototype suitable for extended field testing by caregivers providing health care services to seniors in the community in a longitudinal study.