TELEpHOne Monitor for the Elderly (TELEHOME)

TELEpHOne 老年人监护仪 (TELEHOME)

• 批准号: 7803475
• 负责人: AARON B OLOWIN
• 金额: $ 40.51万
• 依托单位: BARRON ASSOCIATES, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-15 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7803475
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Barron Associates, Inc. proposes to develop a TELEpHOne Monitor for the Elderly (TELEHOME), a low-profile, body-worn, wireless personal monitor with built-in speakerphone. Functions provided by the TELEHOME system include: (1) monitoring/alerting for fall events, personal emergencies, activity/inactivity, and wandering; (2) automatic connection of mobile speakerphone to call recipient in response to an emergency event, or to calling parties for incoming telephone calls; (3) capability for family members and friends to stay abreast of in-home activity patterns of monitored individuals (e.g., track transitions through areas of the home, activity counts, etc.) through automatically-generated telephone voice calls, e-mail messages, or the TELEHOME website; and (4) recorded voice message delivery to mobile speakerphone to remind monitored individuals to take their medication, etc. The TELEHOME system is easy to operate, and requires no modifications to the home or involvement of a third-party monitoring company (eliminating associated fees). The TELEHOME system will be valuable to informal caregivers, such as adults who have an elderly parent living alone in a community or senior care facility, who want to ensure that those in their charge are safe and up and about each day. It will also provide peace of mind to elderly persons who want to continue to live independently, but have a safety net in place. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The role of informal caregivers (i.e., family, friends, and neighbors), as contrasted with formal compensated home care providers, has increased greatly over the past two decades in the U.S. due to changes in the Medicare system. One way to lessen the burden on informal providers and provide peace of mind, as well as increase quality of care and quality of life for elders, is to make available a low-cost monitoring system that would allow potential emergencies to be identied when they occur and enable family and friends to stay abreast of activity patterns of those in their charge. Commercial personal monitoring systems available today provide incomplete coverage of potential emergency events and are too expensive.

描述（由申请人提供）：巴伦联合公司。建议开发一种用于老年人的TELEpHOne监视器（TELEHOME），这是一种低姿态、身体佩戴的无线个人监视器，具有内置扬声器。TELEHOME系统提供的功能包括：（1）对跌倒事件、个人紧急情况、活动/不活动和徘徊进行监控/警报;（2）自动连接移动的免提电话到呼叫接收者以响应紧急事件，或自动连接到来电的呼叫方;（3）家庭成员和朋友能够及时了解被监控个人的家庭活动模式（例如，通过家庭区域、活动计数等来跟踪过渡）通过自动生成的电话语音呼叫、电子邮件消息或TELEHOME网站;以及（4）记录的语音消息传送到移动的扬声器电话，以提醒被监控的个人服用他们的药物等。TELEHOME系统易于操作，并且不需要对家庭进行修改或第三方监控公司的参与（消除相关费用）。家庭电话系统对非正式照顾者很有价值，例如有一位年迈的父母独自住在社区或老年护理机构的成年人，他们希望确保他们所照顾的人每天都安全、健康。它还将为那些希望继续独立生活但有安全网的老年人提供安心。 公共卫生相关性：非正式护理人员的作用（即，家庭、朋友和邻居），与正式的有偿家庭护理提供者相比，由于医疗保险制度的变化，在过去的二十年里在美国大大增加了。减轻非正规提供者的负担、让他们安心以及提高老年人的护理质量和生活质量的一个方法是提供一个低成本的监测系统，以便在发生潜在紧急情况时能够发现，并使家人和朋友能够随时了解他们所负责的人的活动模式。目前可用的商业个人监视系统提供对潜在紧急事件的不完全覆盖，并且太昂贵。