Telecare is an innovative system that represents an applied form of an intelligent environment. Users’ home environments are arranged following the smart house concept, connected to a remote monitoring network, and through this to providers of care and other services. Telecare represents a great opportunity for the elderly because it enables users to remain in their home environments for as long as possible, but it also raises many concerns. Therefore, opportunities, problems and solutions of a telecare are analyzed.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 2385091Due to the anticipated opportunities provided by telecare, some countries have begun establishing remote home care systems as part of the regular or general health and social care system (e.g., the British government has also worked out a strategic plan and started building a network to establish a telecare system). However, numerous setbacks have been met from the very beginning. Therefore, establishing a remote home care systems for the elderly in society is criticaly evaluated in the paper.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 2397123For developed countries population ageing is becoming an increasing challenge, especially as the rising proportion of older people is rapidly increasing costs of health and social care services. To ensure greater financial sustainability, a care for the elderly should be transferred into their homes and provided at a distance. Therefore some conditions and requirements for implementation of such care in existing health and social care systems are presented and critically analyzed in the article. The implementation was recognized a combination of technological and organizational planning and in addition to user, it includes also other stakeholders, who have different conceptions of risk and different value systems which need to be satisfied, Implementation, therfore, must be carefully planned. Starting the process of implementation the political support for this innovation is particulary important, but for its acceptance in society the support of the users.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 2426563Population ageing is becoming an increasing challenge for developed countries, especially as the rising proportion of older people is rapidly increasing costs of health and social care services. To ensure greater financial sustainability, a care for the elderly should be transferred in their homes and provided at a distance. Therefore some principles for implementation of such care in existing health and social care systems are presented and critically analyzed in the article. It turned out that the implementation of such care is very complex and thus it must be carefully planned.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 47385186Ageing of population and increasing of financial needs for ensuring adequate supply of housing for the elderly, the concept of “ageing at home” and the desire of the elderly to age within their home environment, increasing of the one-person or two-persons elderly households and the lack of diversity of accommodations for the elderly in Slovenia are the reasons why some alternative institutional and collective forms of housing for the elderly as well as individual forms associated with arrangements of living environment for an (extended) independent living of the older people in their homes are presented in this article.
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