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Published in Govind Singh Patel, Seema Nayak, Sunil Kumar Chaudhary, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data, and Internet of Things for Healthcare, 2023
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Quickly increasing aging populations and associated challenges in health- and social care raise the costs of healthcare sky high. There has been a need to monitor patients from a remote location. Take, for example, Alzheimer’s disease, which slowly destroys brain cells and causes elderly persons to forget things and past events. Many people spend more than $1,285 per year caring for someone with Alzheimer’s. Many elderly people die due to this disease because they forget to take medicine on time, and sometimes they fall down accidently. Researchers have developed a portable, easy-to-use, and cost-effective system that uses a panic button. If a person needs any help then they press the button, which sends an alert message to their caretaker. This innovation helps such patients.
User-defined challenges and desiderata for robotics and autonomous systems in health and social care settings
Published in Advanced Robotics, 2019
Gabriel Aguiar Noury, Hannah Bradwell, Serge Thill, Ray Jones
In total, 223 participants with various backgrounds (Table 2) contributed to this study. Health and social care professionals included domiciliary care, residential care, general practice, hospital doctors and nurses, pharmacists, mental health specialists, and health-related charitable organizations. Service users were recruited through online advertisements, newspaper articles and advertisements, support groups and public engagement events in some locations took part. Service users were further recruited from Patient Participation Groups from general practitioner (GP) practices. University students from different backgrounds were also recruited via online advertisements and emails. Finally, representatives from small and medium enterprises (SME) related to the healthcare industry were also invited via online advertisement and emails. Table 2 shows that our focus groups had participants from a range of backgrounds so giving a rich interaction.