Using information and mobile technology improved elderly home care services

“…Furthermore, the completeness of bed cleaning varies among older staff, and the steps followed in a procedure or other things to be considered may be missed. Their smartphones need to be given a special design to cope with the needs of the elderly (Kuo, Wang, & Chen, ). To address these issues, this study developed a smartphone App with an easy‐to‐use, streamlined process, with features such as a clean interface, automatic loading of the list of beds to be cleaned, a countdown timer, reminders for patients with infections and a bed‐cleaning checklist; this App also allows the management to check and follow‐up the current bed‐cleaning status.…”

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confidence: 99%

Design and evaluation of the bed‐cleaning mobile application

et al. 2020

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Aim:To develop a mobile application (App) that enhances bed-cleaning management.Background: Bed cleaning affects clinical work in hospitals. The nursing department needed an App to enhance bed-cleaning management, especially one on the status of all beds to be cleaned. Methods:Bed-Cleaning App (BedCApp) was developed. Then, a survey was administered to 50 BedCApp users. Results:BedCApp helped the administrative staff and nurse managers in adjusting their workload effectively. A complete presentation of beds to be cleaned and reminders were found to be the most satisfactory features. The average time from receiving the notice to completing bed cleaning was shortened by 25.5 min. The user satisfaction survey comprised 50 valid questionnaires, with a satisfaction rate of 3.6/5. Conclusion:BedCApp provides the actual workload status; therefore, the administrative staff and nurse managers can optimize the workload during rush hours. The software is user-oriented, with good user acceptance. Implications for Nursing Management:Proactive workload management would improve outcomes during rush hours and avoid interference in clinical care. The user interfaces for the elderly staff has special design-simple to use, larger font size than that in the interface for non-elderly staff and workflow reminders.

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“…With the decline in physical health of the elderly people, such as vision problems, hearing problem, memory, muscle and other organs. The elderly people would need attention from others people around it [5] such as family, nurses, doctors, nursing homes, etc.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example Kuo et al [5] conducted research improving elderly home care service by utilizing information and mobile devices. This research could be used by home care service, but this service not from the personal side of elderly or the family member.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Elderly Healthcare Assistance Application Using Mobile Phone

Handojo

Sutiono²,

Purbowo³

2017

2017 International Conference on Soft Computing, Intelligent System and Information Technology (ICSIIT)

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Abstract-As people become older, people generally will experience a health decline such as becomes weak, susceptible to disease, decreased vision ability, etc. Therefore, special health attention is needed for the elderly people, especially from the family member or personal doctors / nurses. On the other hand, the number of elderly people in the world is rapidly increase so there's more people will need special attention. Therefore, this research try to develop an application on mobile phone that could help elderly people and their family member to supervise and monitor the health of the elderly. This application has feature to monitor the location of the elderly, remainder to take the medication, doctor appointment remainder, medical record records, emergency phone to family number or personal doctor, etc. From the experimental results of the application to the participant and the test with the questionnaire on the prospective users, 94% of respondents feel the application is very useful and can run well as needed.

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Using information and mobile technology improved elderly home care services

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