Impact of a Personal Emergency Response System on Hospital Utilization by Community- Residing Elders

Roush, Robert E.; Teasdale, T. A.; Murphy, Jeff; Kirk, Michael

doi:10.1097/00007611-199509000-00006

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“…Research in Canada has shown that community alarm systems can reduce the number of hospital admissions from the community by 25% (Roush et al, 1995). We use this figure to estimate the impact of telecare on hospital admissions.…”

Section: The Dynamics Of Telecare Implementationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Figure 4 shows what would happen to hospital admissions if we assume, following Roush et al (1995), a 25% reduction in the admissions probability for clients receiving telecare compared to clients in the same frailty categories receiving standard homecare. Run 1 of our simulation experiments portrays the steady-state case of the present care system in the absence of telecare.…”

Section: Simulation Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Savings in hospital admissions are present immediately after the introduction of the service when telecare recipients are still in the low-frailty category. Savings in hospital costs might be more substantial if, in addition to admission avoidance, there is a reduction in length of stays, which some studies suggest can also be achieved (Roush et al, 1995).…”

Section: Financial Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The provision of health and social care for an increasing elderly population is a challenge facing many societies. Telecare, the delivery of health and social care to individuals within the home or wider community, with the support of information and communication technologies, has been advocated as an approach to reduce the rise in the number of elderly people in institutional care and to contain costs. A dynamic model is required to understand the systemic impact of telecare implementation over time. The paper cautions against overoptimistic expectations about the impact of telecare in the short term and emphasises that the benefits for healthcare systems may take a considerable time to be realised.

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“…Detection of a fall, either through automatic fall detection or through a personal emergency response system (PERS) might reduce the occurrence of the 'long-lie', by minimizing the time between the fall and the arrival of medical attention [9]. The most common existing PERS, the push-button pendant, is not always satisfactory because during a loss of consciousness or a faint the pendant might not be activated [10].…”

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“…The most valuable of the systems presented was the manually operated emergency call system, which provides help in case of severe problems. There is an obvious and direct benefit of such a system on the one hand (Roush et al, 1995), and on the other hand it is already well established and known to the people, even though most of the interviewees did not have this technology. Similar results have been reported in the literature (Demiris et al, 2004Mann et al, 2005).…”

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People's Perceptions and Expectations of Assistive Health-Enabling Technologies: An Empirical Study in Germany

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Demographic shifts and their consequences will lead to changes in the way health care is provided. Although assistive health-enabling technologies are regarded as one means to support these changes, they are minimally used, despite the maturity of the underlying technologies. This may partly be attributable to a disregard of users' needs and preferences. The aim of this article is to assess acceptance of health-enabling technologies with regard to their perceived usefulness, risks, and people's readiness to actually use them. Furthermore, we attempted to find out to whom individuals would entrust their health information, and what their basic fears are. We used a questionnaire presenting four exemplary technologies: emergency call systems, videophones, activity and health status monitoring. We conducted 147 face-to-face interviews and analyzed the results using descriptive statistics. Emergency call systems, health status and activity monitoring were rated as useful or very useful, videophones as hardly useful. Intrusion into one's privacy was the most prominent concern. Regarding fears in old age, people were mostly afraid of diseases and loss of independence. They would entrust their medical data to their physicians rather than relatives or caregivers. This study may contribute to systematic analyses of users' perceptions and preferences concerning assistive health-enabling technologies.

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Impact of a Personal Emergency Response System on Hospital Utilization by Community- Residing Elders

Cited by 54 publications

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People's Perceptions and Expectations of Assistive Health-Enabling Technologies: An Empirical Study in Germany

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