Gator Tech Smart Home: Case Study

This would enable some individuals to remain at home longer. Monitoring services include GPS tracking devices as well as alarm devices. Tracking devices are beneficial to individuals who tend to wander. Alarm devices can be good for individuals to alert someone from a 24-hour monitoring service when they have a sudden medical emergency (“Using Professional Home Care Services,” 2012). Understanding the various resources for long-term home care can permit an individual to stay-at-home in a safe and comfortable environment.

Cutting edge technology like household sensors grow to learn the habits of a senior to ensure they are doing well. If the system doesn’t register the senior moving from their bedroom at a certain hour or other daily routines, an alert will go out to notify proper responders. In other areas of need, Selfhelp understands the importance of interaction. That’s why their Senior Source technology transports seniors into classrooms and activities with skilled teachers and other seniors. By doing so, everyone is able to socialize and think

The Intelligent Hospital™ Pavilion was presented at Orlando’s Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2014 conference. The concept of an Intelligent Hospital™ started in 2009 as an initiative from the Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) in Health Care Consortium (Frisch, 2014). Its purpose was to promote and seamlessly combine education and technology into an environment that can enhance patient care by having live demonstrations utilizing the latest technology. Five different types of hospital rooms including ICU (as seen in the video), emergency department, cardiology suite, labor and delivery and a step-down unit were featured in the Intelligent Hospital™ Pavilion along with an intelligent pharmacy.

Many daily chores are completed by the use of smart technology. For example, smart technology can be used for: setting an alarm clock, making phone calls, balancing a bank account, paying bills, checking e-mails, doing homework, getting directions, etc. Many people take advantage of this. They may use their laptop, iPad, cellphone up to ten times a day to complete these tasks. I'll admit it, I have a favorite app myself. Pinterest! I'll lose hours on end getting lost in the app. However, smart technology does have better uses.

Fortunately, there are technologies that can assist with aging in place. These technologies produce better health outcomes, lower caregiver burden, and save money over the life of the individual. There are several types of technologies which will be discussed in this paper, which include technologies that provide education and support social networking, technologies that support monitoring and management of health and well-being, and chronic conditions, and finally technologies that support interactions with the healthcare system (Marchibroda, 2015). This research paper will show that the use of technology will greatly benefit the elderly population in helping them to age in place.

Transition- Since the invention, the house robot helps people in need. This invention will grow into more advanced technology

By 2050, the number of Americans sixty-five and older is going to double, to more than eighty million. Moreover, research found that almost ninety percent of Americans, including those older than seventy, want to age in place for at least the next five to ten years of their lives. As the American population ages, and as the digital health field expands, technologies addressing the unique challenges of aging in place will become more of a reality. Great strides already have been made to improve aging. Seniors who want to age in place need to be as independent as possible. Technical innovations for successful aging offer opportunities both for older people and for societies with growing numbers of old and very old people.

There are many challenges that older adults who want to age in place come upon. To overcome those challenges, new and advanced technologies are required that will help maintain independence, dignity and home care. Assisted living technologies (ALTs) play an important role. There are two types of ALTs: Home and Environmental Modifications and Telemedicine and Telecare (Graybill, McMeekin & Wildman, 2014).

Home providers may not be aware of all of the assistive devices and technology that is currently available. When seniors take advantage of respite care services, they are often exposed to devices and technology that allows them to socialize at a higher level. From devices that help with mobility to those that assist with hearing or vision, just knowing what is out there can make a difference and give seniors the confidence to increase their socialization.

Dementia describes a decline in mental ability. Alzheimer disease, which damages brain cells, is the major cause of dementia. It is estimated that around 850,000 people in UK developed dementia in 2015. The risks of developing dementia will increase by the comprehensive contributions of aging, risk genes, and unhealthy lifestyles. However, the medical treatments fails to cure dementia effectively for the mechanics of how dementia is developed is too complicated to identify. Therefore, present research on dementia treatments mainly concentrates on technological devices to help people with dementia. In this report, three technological approaches (the early diagnosis in preventing people from dementia, infrared movement sensors to help taking care of people with dementia, and integrated smart house are introduced and the limitations future implications of these technologies are discussed.

Early 2012, the NCH Healthcare System decided to start down a journey of enhancing the smart room which was first developed by the UPMC and IBM. Under the Cerner Corporation, better and more advanced smart rooms technology were made and implemented in two patient floors (5th and 6th) of NCH North Naples Hospital (NCH Healthcare System, 2015).

There is an explosive growth in wearable computing devices over the past couple of years mostly due to technological advances in smart devices. Although most of these are self-care monitoring devices the need for assisted living where a patient can be monitored continuously using these devices are emerging fast. In a typical monitoring system, various vital biological signals, fall risks and changes in predetermined health conditions are collected via sensors and shared with health care professionals for intervention if necessary. Most popular applications of self-care monitoring include daily activity monitoring, emergency and fall detection and rehabilitation. Despite these useful applications, the paradigms such as autonomy, context awareness and spontaneous interactions are not well integrated into these existing systems yet.

A study by Lauriks et al.,(2012, pp.233) reveals that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) devices identifies thirteen interventions that are focused on wandering behavior of the dementia people. The purpose of this device is to detect the wandering behaviour and timely management for the risk. The examples of (ICT) are Global Positioning System (GPS): to detect the location of a person, wristband that activates the boundary alarms, floor lightning system that are activated with the movement of wandering person, communication system instructing person to return to his bed and alarm alerting the caregiver for wandering behavior of person. The study was completed in residential home, hospital and home settings. The effectiveness of the use of ICT was found to be reliable, effective and successful detecting the wandering, finding the lost person and reduced the stress to the care giver. However, the method is only to detect wandering person but not the treatment but the early detection decreases the risk of fall injury and other injury associated with

Seniors with Alzheimer need special care and constant monitoring. Security in a nursing home is extra important and necessary for these individuals because any one of them can leave the facility if left unattended. There are certain measures that need to be addressed in order to assure the safety of the patients. Because patients with Alzheimers need 24/7 care, there needs to be a staff member for each patient in the facility. Each patient will get special attention and care and can be monitored individually. Surveillance and monitoring measures should be addressed as well. Security cameras and alarms should be installed, on every exit door in the facility. If the patients have id bracelets, it is recommended that a GPS tracker is installed

There is an explosive growth in wearable computing devices over the past couple of years mostly due to technological advances in smart devices. Although most of these are self-care monitoring devices the need for assisted living where a patient can be monitored continuously using these devices are emerging fast. In a typical tracking system, various vital biological signals, fall risks and changes in predetermined health conditions are collected via sensors and shared with medical professionals for intervention if necessary. Most popular applications of self-care monitoring include daily activity monitoring, emergency and fall detection, and rehabilitation. Despite these useful applications, the paradigms such as autonomy, context awareness, and spontaneous interactions are not well integrated into these existing systems yet.