Technology Supports for Home Health Care Providers

专门的以计算机为基础的卫生保健支持技术在解决家庭卫生保健提供者在向老年人提供护理方面的需求方面具有很大的潜力。建议的系统将提供简化的多媒体指示和自动提醒，以协助家庭照顾者在家中为长者提供医疗照顾服务。假设通过简化的便携式计算机支持系统提供个性化的护理指导，包括文本、音频、图片和视频指导，可以改善以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。第一阶段的设计是：1)确定系统的功能、界面和技术要求；2)设计和开发一个功能齐全的原型系统；3)在家庭护理人员中对系统进行试点测试。这些活动旨在为第二阶段的研究奠定基础，其中第一阶段的研究结果将在软件再开发工作中实施，以产生适合于在纵向研究中为社区老年人提供卫生保健服务的护理人员进行扩展现场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.