TY - JOUR
T1 - Connectivity for healthcare and well-being management
T2 - examples from six European projects
AU - Kamel Boulos, Maged N
AU - Lou, Ricardo Castellot
AU - Anastasiou, Athanasios
AU - Nugent, Chris D
AU - Alexandersson, Jan
AU - Zimmermann, Gottfried
AU - Cortes, Ulises
AU - Casas, Roberto
PY - 2009/7
Y1 - 2009/7
N2 - Technological advances and societal changes in recent years have contributed to a shift in traditional care models and in the relationship between patients and their doctors/carers, with (in general) an increase in the patient-carer physical distance and corresponding changes in the modes of access to relevant care information by all groups. The objective of this paper is to showcase the research efforts of six projects (that the authors are currently, or have recently been, involved in), CAALYX, eCAALYX, COGKNOW, EasyLine+, I2HOME, and SHARE-it, all funded by the European Commission towards a future where citizens can take an active role into managing their own healthcare. Most importantly, sensitive groups of citizens, such as the elderly, chronically ill and those suffering from various physical and cognitive disabilities, will be able to maintain vital and feature-rich connections with their families, friends and healthcare providers, who can then respond to, and prevent, the development of adverse health conditions in those they care for in a timely manner, wherever the carers and the people cared for happen to be.
AB - Technological advances and societal changes in recent years have contributed to a shift in traditional care models and in the relationship between patients and their doctors/carers, with (in general) an increase in the patient-carer physical distance and corresponding changes in the modes of access to relevant care information by all groups. The objective of this paper is to showcase the research efforts of six projects (that the authors are currently, or have recently been, involved in), CAALYX, eCAALYX, COGKNOW, EasyLine+, I2HOME, and SHARE-it, all funded by the European Commission towards a future where citizens can take an active role into managing their own healthcare. Most importantly, sensitive groups of citizens, such as the elderly, chronically ill and those suffering from various physical and cognitive disabilities, will be able to maintain vital and feature-rich connections with their families, friends and healthcare providers, who can then respond to, and prevent, the development of adverse health conditions in those they care for in a timely manner, wherever the carers and the people cared for happen to be.
KW - Aged
KW - Aged, 80 and over
KW - Clinical Trials as Topic
KW - Dementia
KW - Europe
KW - Housing for the Elderly
KW - Humans
KW - Internet
KW - Monitoring, Ambulatory
KW - Telemedicine
KW - Telemetry
KW - User-Computer Interface
U2 - 10.3390/ijerph6071947
DO - 10.3390/ijerph6071947
M3 - Article
C2 - 19742164
SN - 1660-4601
VL - 6
SP - 1947
EP - 1971
JO - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
JF - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
IS - 7
ER -