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AI- and IoT-Based Architecture in Healthcare
Published in Pushpa Singh, Divya Mishra, Kirti Seth, Transformation in Healthcare with Emerging Technologies, 2022
Divya Mishra, Pushpa Singh, Shivani Agarwal
AI–IoT technology has revolutionized remote monitoring in the healthcare industry. IoT-enabled tools equip health care professionals to provide efficient remote care and long-term care to chronically ill patients. Various innovative wearable devices and home-installed devices are used to track heart rate, blood sugar, calorie counts, blood pressure, etc. This allows providers and other health care professionals to track patient health remotely and identify new symptoms before they advance and create more serious health emergencies. Telemedicine and teleconsultation improve the lives of older patients and those who live alone with a health condition. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) uses alert mechanisms to send signals to family members and healthcare providers if routines change.
Diagnosis-Related Groups: Are Patients in Jeopardy?
Published in Marilyn Sue Bogner, Human Error in Medicine, 2018
Long-term care in a nursing home may create psychological problems that can compound the physical problems of the patients. The residents must deal with the fear or reality that they will never go home. Separation from family, friends, and even pets and belongings is difficult. In some cases, nursing care is driven by a view of the elderly as helpless and dependent. There are disincentives to independence and an increased loss of personal control. Many health-care workers involve the patient and family in care planning. They actively seek to provide privacy and some sense of personal space, but this not always the case and may not be the norm.
Healthcare Delivery Systems
Published in A. Ravi Ravindran , Paul M. Griffin , Vittaldas V. Prabhu , Service Systems Engineering and Management, 2018
A. Ravi Ravindran , Paul M. Griffin , Vittaldas V. Prabhu
Long-Term Care—this is provided to a patient with chronic conditions over a longer period of time. These include skilled nursing facilities (nursing homes), which provide 24-hour care for elderly or for younger patients with a permanent disability; long-term acute care hospitals, which serve patients with multiple, complex medical problems (stay for weeks to months; prolonged ventilator use, ongoing dialysis, etc.); and inpatient rehab facilities for patients who require comprehensive rehabilitation (e.g., strokes, serious fractures, joint replacement surgeries).
Development and Validation of a Checklist to Assess the Elderly Attitude toward the Environmental Indicators (EA-EIs) of Nursing Home Facilities
Published in Journal of Aging and Environment, 2021
Masoome Malek, Mosayeb Mozafari, Sanaz Aazami, Golnaz Azami
With the rapid increase in the number of the elderly population, care quality has become an important issue. There is increasing evidence that long-term care facilities are an important center for the elderly. With the rapid growth of the elderly population in Iran, the demands for geriatric and long-term care drastically increased. Patients care quality is a crucial concern for long-term care facilities and is directly related to effective care. The long-term care facility is a facility that provides rehabilitative, restorative, and/or ongoing skilled nursing care to elderly patients or residents in need of assistance with activities of daily living (William, 2018). Long-term care facilities include nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, inpatient behavioral health facilities, and long-term care hospitals (William). The current study is focused on the environmental indicators of nursing home facilities.
The Last Habitat: Living and Dying in Residential Care Facility
Published in Journal of Housing For the Elderly, 2018
Benyamin Schwarz, Rachel Molnar, Jacquelyn J. Benson, Ruth Brent Tofle
Long-term care is not easy to define. Kane and Kane (1987) defined long-term care as “a set of health, personal care, and social services delivered over a sustained period of time to persons who have lost or never acquired some degree of functional capacity” (p. 4). Most of long-term care is provided by family members. However, as the condition of the care recipient deteriorates and the stress level of caregiver increases, the need to supplement the informal care with formal care resources grows (Rowles & Teaster, 2016). In 2014, for example, nearly 1.5 million older adults lived in institutional environments. It is estimated that the number of residents will rise to somewhere between a low of 2.6 million and high of 5 million in 2050 (Administration on Aging, 2016). While the number of institutionalized people reflects less than 5% of individuals 65 years and older, the potentiality of moving to an institutional setting rises with age. The current prediction is that older adults who turn 65 have nearly a 50% chance of spending some time in a nursing home before they die. About 10% of these institutionalizations will be for a short-term stay, intended for recuperation after hospitalization, and the remainder will be for long-term stay, with most discharges to the hospital or the morgue (Spillman & Lubitz, 2002).
Planning and financing the home and facility-based care using the multiple decrement approach
Published in Journal of Decision Systems, 2018
Valerija Rogelj, David Bogataj
According to the OECD definition,Long-term care (LTC) is a range of services required by persons with a reduced degree of functional capacity, physical or cognitive, and who are consequently dependent for an extended period of time on the help of others with basic activities of daily living (ADL), such as bathing, dressing, eating, getting in and out of bed or chair, moving around and using the bathroom. LTC is frequently provided in combination with basic medical services such as help with a wound dressing, pain management, medication, health monitoring, prevention, rehabilitation or services of palliative care. LTC services also include lower-level care related to help with instrumental activities of daily living (IADL), such as help with housework, meals, shopping and transportation. LTC can be received in institutions or at home. (OECD Health Data, 2017)