tailieunhanh - Improving Health Outcomes for the Elderly: An Analytic Framework

During the entire twentieth century, mortality among the old declined about 1% per year, and the whole period has been a time of fairly regular increase in life expectancy (43, 62, 81). There have been some years of more rapid decline in old age mortality, such as from 1968 until the early 1980s, and years of slower decline, such as from 1954 to 1968 (10, 43). Even the last two decades have been a mixture of slower and more rapid periods of mortality decline for the older population (81). Compared to the 1970s, there was substantial slowing in the rate of mortality decline in the 1980s among. | 23rd Bled eConference eTrust Implications for the Individual Enterprises and Society June 20 - 23 2010 Bled Slovenia Improving Health Outcomes for the Elderly An Analytic Framework Elaine Lawrence University of Technology Sydney Australia elaine@ Christian Sax University of Technology Sydney Australia sax@ Karla Felix Navarro University of Technology Sydney Australia karla@ Abstract The authors present an analytic framework for investigating interactive gaming technologies and integrating a number of such technologies into a remote healthcare monioring system ReMoteCare to help improve the quality of life of the elderly the chronically unwell and infirm whether they are living in their own homes or in aged care facilities. The framework covers population characteristics of the cohort the interactive technologies as well as economic and environmental factors. It is anticipated that a series of interactive exercises developed in conjunction with a Feldenkrais movement therapist who specializes in exercises for the elderly will help to improve the physical and mental health outcomes of this cohort. Keywords Interactive games elderly chronically unwell analytic framework 1 Introduction Remote monitoring of health conditions is an essential step for collecting evidence for improving the physical and mental outcomes for the elderly chronically unwell and infirm as well as for policy development for governments . However it is also vital to encourage such people to do beneficial physical and mental exercises and support them throughout the process in order to maintain good health outcomes. Current information and communication technologies on assistive healthcare mainly focus on remote sensing 441 Elaine Lawrence Christian Sax Karla Felix Navarro using the Internet and wireless sensor networks for collecting health condition data of elderly people. Examples include the ReMoteCare system Fischer et al 2008 Lawrence et al 2010 as well