Using Technology to Improve Care of Older Adults (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Chau, Diane; Osborne, Thomas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

State-of-the-art developments in multiple new technologies for older adult care

Grounded in a unique team-based geriatrics perspective, this book delivers a broad range of current, evidence-based knowledge about innovative technology that has the potential to advance the care and well being of older adults. It provides key information about the development, selection, and implementation of technology products, and describes research evidence, education-based initiatives, and systems thinking. The book also examines challenges and barriers to implementation, adoption and innovation.

From telehealth and assistive technology in the home to simulation and augmented reality in educational settings, the text provides a hands-on, field-tested articulation of how products can aid in the transitional care process, chronic care delivery, and geriatrics/gerontology education. It discusses technology developments in rural areas, home telehealth, wearable technology, personalized medicine, social robots, technology to assist seniors with cognitive impairments, the potential of artificial intelligence to enhance health care of older adults. The text is written to help health care professionals select the appropriate technology for their needs.

Key Features:

• Describes the most current technology resources, evidence, and developments for older adult care
• Based on a team-centered approach
• Written by interprofessional health care providers experienced in implementing, developing and adopting technology to assist older adults
• Includes case studies depicting technology-related successes and failures
• Addresses the challenges, barriers, and opportunities for transforming aging with technology across transitions of care

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780826142436
• Artikelnr.: 48960335

Autorenporträt

Diane Chau, MD, is the PI of a $2.5m grant through the US Department of Health & Human Services to change clinical training environments for health care professionals from all disciplines through telehealth and technology to create a better skilled health care workforce. She is Associate Professor (past Program Director of Geriatric Medicine training program) at UC San Diego. A US News & World Report Top Physician, she completed her geriatric fellowship at UC San Diego School of Medicine in 2002 with a focus on education/curriculum design. During her career she has won over $5.5 million in peer-reviewed grant funding involving simulation training. She has been a published educator, mentor, educational program developer since 2002 with numerous historic and active grant-funding successes. She has a history of work in the area of simulation team training/telemedicine, dynamic team leadership, the successful completion of previous multimillion dollar projects related to education, and (excluding abstracts) has authored over 20 papers and book chapters in her field. She is also the Medical Director of GeriJoy, a tele-monitoring device company for seniors.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Contributors
Preface
I. FOUNDATION
1. Current Major Challenges in Aging and Targets for Technology
Ender Ricart, Thomas F. Osborne, Leonid A. Gavrilov, and Gavin W. Hougham
2. Promoting Technology Adoption and Engagement in Aging
Ashley Reynolds and Thomas F. Osborne
II. LOCATIONS OF CARE
3. Transitions of Care and Technology Integration
Aroop K. Pal, Diane Chau, and Jessica L. Kalender-Rich
4. Home Telehealth
Thomas F. Osborne, John Russo, Jr., Bryan T. Arkwright, and Joel J. Reich
5. Telemedicine and Its Effects on Elder Care in Rural Areas
Roxana Aminbakhsh
III. TARGET CONDITIONS
6. Technology Design for Frailty
Adriana J. Salas, Ashley Reynolds, and Colin M. Thomas
7. Technology and Cognitive Impairment
Ian C. Neel, Roxana Aminbakhsh, Lauren Cook, and T. J. McCallum
8. Advances in Medication Adherence Technology in the Elderly Population
Kevin M. Krcmarik
9. Technological Advancements in Pain Management in the Elderly Population
Muhammad A. Waqar, Kelly Conright, Dawn R. Currie, and Jessica C. Cate
IV. SPECIFIC TOOLS
10. Personalized Medicine and Wearable Devices
Andrew Michael and Thomas F. Osborne
11. Social Robots and Other Relational Agents to Improve Patient Care
Victor H. S. Wang and Thomas F. Osborne
12. Artificial Intelligence and Its Potential to Improve the Health of
Older Adults
Gavin W. Hougham, Amir M. Rahimi, Bruce A. McClelland, Nancy J. McMillan,
Michael A. Schwemmer, David A. Friedenberg, Jeremy Bellay, Andrew J.
Landgraf, and Thomas F. Osborne
13. Advances in Health Education Technology
Ashley Reynolds, Thomas F. Osborne, John Waggoner, Renee Melton, Ramin
Motarjemi, Jürgen P. Schulze, and Diane Chau
Index