Improving adult day services through technology: a user-based approach
Adult day services (ADS) are receiving increased attention due to shifts in health and social policies encouraging home and community-based services for an aging population. However, some issues hinder ADS effectiveness such as the need of diversification of interventions focused on elderly people (...
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| author | Jorge Calvillo-Arbizu Laura M. Roa-Romero Laura M. Roa-Romero Miguel A. Estudillo-Valderrama Joaquin Vera-Vera |
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| description | Adult day services (ADS) are receiving increased attention due to shifts in health and social policies encouraging home and community-based services for an aging population. However, some issues hinder ADS effectiveness such as the need of diversification of interventions focused on elderly people (with different needs and dependency levels) or the undertrained staff. This work presents an analysis of current ADS gaps from interviews to Spanish geriatric experts and scientific literature. An innovative user-based technology implementation is approached to address the most relevant missing gaps identified: formal assessment of user's skills and status before joining the ADS, establishment of personalised interventions for each user, user classification on groups according to characteristics of user members etc. This approach allows to assess elderly over time to generate knowledge about his/her psychological and physical conditions and about the general factors that accelerate/delay deterioration caused by age. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8f0ee2e7f5d84554a6edfe8652b3adc52022-12-21T23:12:34ZengWileyHealthcare Technology Letters2053-37132017-03-0110.1049/htl.2016.0099HTL.2016.0099Improving adult day services through technology: a user-based approachJorge Calvillo-Arbizu0Laura M. Roa-Romero1Laura M. Roa-Romero2Miguel A. Estudillo-Valderrama3Joaquin Vera-Vera4Universidad de SevillaUniversidad de SevillaUniversidad de SevillaUniversidad de SevillaHospital Provincial San LázaroAdult day services (ADS) are receiving increased attention due to shifts in health and social policies encouraging home and community-based services for an aging population. However, some issues hinder ADS effectiveness such as the need of diversification of interventions focused on elderly people (with different needs and dependency levels) or the undertrained staff. This work presents an analysis of current ADS gaps from interviews to Spanish geriatric experts and scientific literature. An innovative user-based technology implementation is approached to address the most relevant missing gaps identified: formal assessment of user's skills and status before joining the ADS, establishment of personalised interventions for each user, user classification on groups according to characteristics of user members etc. This approach allows to assess elderly over time to generate knowledge about his/her psychological and physical conditions and about the general factors that accelerate/delay deterioration caused by age.https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/htl.2016.0099geriatricsuser interfacesmedical computingmedical information systemsadult day serviceshealth policiessocial policiescommunity-based serviceshome servicesaging populationADS effectivenesselderly peopleundertrained staffSpanish geriatric expertsinnovative user-based technology implementationformal assessmentuser skillsuser statususer classificationpersonalised interventionsuser memberspsychological conditionsphysical conditions |
| spellingShingle | Jorge Calvillo-Arbizu Laura M. Roa-Romero Laura M. Roa-Romero Miguel A. Estudillo-Valderrama Joaquin Vera-Vera Improving adult day services through technology: a user-based approach Healthcare Technology Letters geriatrics user interfaces medical computing medical information systems adult day services health policies social policies community-based services home services aging population ADS effectiveness elderly people undertrained staff Spanish geriatric experts innovative user-based technology implementation formal assessment user skills user status user classification personalised interventions user members psychological conditions physical conditions |
| title | Improving adult day services through technology: a user-based approach |
| title_full | Improving adult day services through technology: a user-based approach |
| title_fullStr | Improving adult day services through technology: a user-based approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Improving adult day services through technology: a user-based approach |
| title_short | Improving adult day services through technology: a user-based approach |
| title_sort | improving adult day services through technology a user based approach |
| topic | geriatrics user interfaces medical computing medical information systems adult day services health policies social policies community-based services home services aging population ADS effectiveness elderly people undertrained staff Spanish geriatric experts innovative user-based technology implementation formal assessment user skills user status user classification personalised interventions user members psychological conditions physical conditions |
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