As populations age and chronic conditions become more prevalent, an individual's ability to choose the location of their end-of-life care and death is increasingly considered important in the provision of good healthcare, with home implied as the 'best' place of death through UK government policy and specialist and voluntary palliative care services. However, considering meanings of place of en...

OBJECTIVE To draw up a document in which patients can note down their residential treatment and determine its usefulness. The level of compliance and assessment of the document can be quantified by the healthcare personnel. METHOD Initially the medical prescription process was analysed in the preoperative stage. Its usefulness was later evaluated, analysing the percentage of patients who coul...

Providing elderly and people with special needs to retain their independence as long as possible is one of the biggest challenges of the society of tomorrow. Teseo, a startup company spinoff from University of Genoa, aims at accelerating the transition towards a sustainable healthcare system. Teseo’s first concept and product, Arianna, allows for the automated recognition of activities of daily...

Home healthcare promises significant advantages over the traditional hospitalization, provided the support of the contemporary scientific and technological achievements. The ubiquitous computing paradigm suits the home healthcare provided that the dispersed computing devices in the home environment can actively participate in the interpretation of the developed, each time, medical context. Larg...

The home healthcare staff scheduling problem is concerned with the allocation of care tasks to healthcare staff at a minimal cost, subject to healthcare service requirements, labor law, organizational requirements, staff preferences, and other restrictions. Healthcare service providers strive to meet the time window restrictions specified by the patients to improve their service quality. This p...

Intervention: Three month exercise programme or usual care. The exercise programme consisted of 12 one hour sessions conducted at the participant’s home, by a healthcare professional, with the aim of promoting at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise per day. In addition, caregivers were educated about dementia, trained to recognise and resolve behavioural problems, and encouraged to increase s...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND SAIATU is a program of specially trained in-home social assistance and companionship which, since February 2011, has provided support to end-of-life patients, enabling the delivery of better clinical care by healthcare professionals in Osakidetza (Basque Health Service), in Guipúzcoa (Autonomous Community of the Basque Country).In January 2012, a retrospective observati...

On September 26-27, 2015, the 8th European Congress for Integrative Medicine convened the Global Summit on Integrative Medicine and Healthcare in Greater Copenhagen and Helsingør, Denmark at the Culture Yard just across from Kronborg Castle, which is home to William Shakespeare's Hamlet. This article is a summary of the author's presentation about integrative medicine within the Nordic region, ...