VALUE: Virtual Assisted Living Umbrella for the Elderly - user patterns

Author

Finkelstein, Stanley M. ; Speedie, Stuart M. ; Zhou, Xinyu ; Ratner, Edward ; Potthoff, Sandra

Author_Institution

Dept. of Lab. Medicine & Pathology, Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN

fYear

2006

fDate

Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006

Firstpage

3294

Lastpage

3296

Abstract

VALUE is a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of a home telehealth program on the ability of frail elderly individuals to remain living independently in their own home as their self-care abilities decline. VALUE uses broadband access to provide virtual visits with a home care nurse, a Web portal for ordering assisted living services, physiological monitoring, and access to the Internet. Subjects were able to use the VALUE program technology without difficulty after a brief instruction session with the nurse

Keywords

Internet; biomedical communication; geriatrics; health care; home computing; medical computing; patient monitoring; portals; teleconferencing; Internet access; Web portal; broadband access; frail elderly individuals; home care nurse; home telehealth program; physiological monitoring; self-care ability; videoconferencing; virtual assisted living umbrella; Biomedical monitoring; Cities and towns; Condition monitoring; Medical services; Portals; Pulse measurements; Senior citizens; Teleconferencing; Web and internet services; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

New York, NY

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0032-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259411

Filename

4462501