Purpose: The fragmented delivery of health and social services for large groups of patients with chronic conditions was put on the research agenda in 2002 by WHO. The FP7-IHC-project (www.integratedhomecare.eu) aims to develop a turn-key-solution for better clinical continuity to European health regions. Method: The general framework of the project is the international concept of health technol...

OBJECTIVES To identify interventions that aim to reduce dependency in activities of daily living (ADL) in homecare service users. To determine: content; effectiveness in improving ability to perform ADL; and whether delivery by qualified occupational therapists influences effectiveness. DATA SOURCES The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, MEDLINE, EMBASE, AMED, CINAHL, PsycINFO, O...

OBJECTIVE This work sought to develop, validate, and determine the reliability of an instrument on Competency in Homecare of the family caregiver of an individual with chronic disease. METHODOLOGY The test validation study was carried out in the following phases: 1) literature review; 2) analysis of results of programs to help family caregivers in Latin America; 3) exploration of the classifi...

The proposed article aims to provide a discussion on the issue of the utilization of wireless technologies, for the deployment of monitoring wireless personal area sensor networks for the unobtrusive monitoring of patients, aiming to answer some of the fundamental questions raised by this, including which is the most appropriate technology for such a networking architecture, what is the best to...

In this paper, we deal with a drug delivery problem in a French homecare. The carriers are assigned to specific areas and must visit each patient once a day while minimizing the total travelled distance. In this context, we propose to explore four strategies of delivery: (i) starting deliveries when a specified number of deliveries is achieved, (ii) starting deliveries if a specified distance i...

In 2021 there will be an increase in population Indonesia with East Java being the second most populous and Malang Raya one of cities highest number people according to data from Ministry Health. This has resulted phenomenon emergence many independent health service clinics, which is physiotherapy clinic, especially homecare services meet needs public services. Providing pay attention quality f...

Vision-based homecare system receives increasing research interest owing to its efficiency, portability and low-cost characters. This paper presents a vision-based semi-supervised homecare system to automatically monitor the exceptional behaviors of self-helpless persons in home environment. Firstly, our proposed framework tracks the behavior of surveilled individual using dynamic conditional r...

BACKGROUND Due to the growing number of elderly with advanced chronic conditions, healthcare services will come under increasing pressure. Teleconsultation is an innovative approach to deliver quality of care for palliative patients at home. Quantitative studies assessing the effect of teleconsultation on clinical outcomes are scarce. The aim of this present study is to investigate the effectiv...