Telehealth for our ageing society : selected papers from Global Telehealth 2017 / edited by Maayken E. L. van den Berg and Anthony J. Maeder.

Format:

Book

Series:

Studies in health technology and informatics. 0926-9630 ; Volume 246.

Studies in health technology and informatics ; Volume 246

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical telematics--Congresses.

Medical telematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (148 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Belin ; Washington, DC : IOS Press, [2018]

Summary:

The population of the world is ageing, and the prospect of increasing care costs is generating new ideas and approaches to healthcare for the elderly.This growing burden of care, coupled with the rapid increase of digital literacy and an appetite for the use of digital resources among older citizens, has also encouraged a diversification of.

Contents:

Title Page

Preface

International Expert Review Panel

Contents

What Have We Learned from the CSIRO National NBN Telehealth Trial?

Telehealth in the Elderly with Chronic Heart Failure: What Is the Evidence?

Supporting Regional Aged Care Nursing Staff to Manage Residents' Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia, in Real Time, Using the Nurses' Behavioural Assistant (NBA): A Pilot Site 'End-User Attitudes' Trial

Caring for Carers of People with Dementia: A Protocol for Harnessing Innovation Through Deploying Leading Edge Technologies to Enable Virtual Support Groups and Services

Consumer Wearable Information and Health Self Management by Older Adults

Trial Implementation of a Telerehabilitation Exercise System in Residential Aged Care

Supporting Diverse Challenges of Ageing with Digital Enhanced Living Solutions

Systems to Harness Digital Footprint to Elucidate and Facilitate Ageing in Place

An Innovative Technology to Support Independent Living: The Smarter Safer Homes Platform

Maximising the Opportunity for Healthy Ageing: Online Mental Health Measurement and Targeted Interventions

Prediction of Freezing of Gait in Patients with Parkinson's Disease Using EEG Signals

Subject Index

Author Index.

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ISBN:

1-61499-845-0

OCLC:

1031468712