This paper presents a study of the comparison of different healthcare services to identify the characteristics and of a pervasive and ubiquitous healthcare system which is described as the healthcare provided for home based and moving patients that could enable remote and continuous monitoring and medical services anywhere and anytime. The study has identified the different classification of he...

OBJECTIVE To analyze home care practices of outpatient and hospital services and their constitution as a substitute healthcare network. METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES A qualitative study was carried out using tracer methodology to analyze four outpatient home care services from the Municipal Health Department and one service from a philanthropic hospital in the municipality of Belo Horizonte, Sout...

1. Introduction Among many other countries, Sweden is undergoing hospital restructuring by reducing the number of hospital beds and increasing the proportion of home healthcare. By moving the routine medical check and other healthcare services from hospital to the home environment, the limited hospital resources can be released to the people with urgent needs. Especially in the background of gl...

Currently the world is going through a demographic shift that projects the proportion of ageing population will be more than double in the next four decades. This has serious consequences for our current healthcare systems for the ageing population that are prone to chronic diseases. One possible solution is to provide in-home assisted healthcare through technology intervened approaches. This w...

There is growing interest in devices for home healthcare applications. At world level, the life expectancy will increase from 67.2 years in 2010 to 75.4 years in 2050, and in more developed regions life expectancy will rise to 82.4 years by 2050 (UN, 2006). This has considerable consequences for healthcare budgets. The number of people with chronic illness is also increasing and due to frequent...

Given current demographic and health trends, and their economic implications, home healthcare technology has become a fertile area for research and development. Motivated by the need for a radical reform of healthcare provision, SPHERE is a large-scale Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration that aims to develop home sensor systems to monitor people’s health and wellbeing in the home. This pap...

The problem of providing effective and appropriate healthcare to elderly and disable people home has been increasingly talked around. Information and communication technology (ICT) is believed to enable home healthcare management to mitigate some problems. This paper is to contribute IoT (Internet of things) architecture to achieve connectivity with the patient, sensors and everything around it...

Home healthcare is steadily growing in Europe. There are a number of reasons for this development: aging population, rising hospital costs, preference to stay in one's own home. Nevertheless, it has been known that home healthcare workers are frequently exposed to a variety of potentially serious occupational hazards. Furthermore, emotional labor is frequently high in this profession. This pape...

High rates of controlled prescription drugs are associated with cognitive impairment, falls, and misuse and dependence. Little is known about the prevalence of these medications among older adults receiving home healthcare. The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of, and the factors related to, opioid analgesics, benzodiazepines (BNZ), and nonbenzodiazepine (NBNZH) hypnotics am...

Home healthcare initiatives are aimed to reduce readmission costs, transportation costs, and hospital medical errors, and to improve post hospitalization healthcare quality, and enhance patient home independency. Today, it is almost unimaginable to consider this initiative without information technology. Home healthcare robots are one type of the emerging technologies that hold promise for maki...