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Perspectives on Wider Integration of the Health-Assistive Smart Home
Journal of Ageing and Longevity, Vol.2, pp.140-152
2022
Abstract
Most older adults desire to be as independent as possible and remain living in their ancestral home as they age. Aging-in-place maximizes the independence of older adults, enhancing their wellbeing and quality of life while decreasing the financial burden of residential care costs. However, due to chronic disease, multimorbidity, and age-related changes, appropriate conditions are required to make aging-in-place possible. Remote monitoring with smart home technologies could provide the infrastructure that enables older adults to remain living independently in their own homes safely. The health-assistive smart home shows great promise, but there are challenges to integrating smart homes on a larger scale. The purpose of this discussion paper is to propose a Design Thinking (DT) process to improve the possibility of integrating a smart home for health monitoring more widely and making it more accessible to all older adults wishing to continue living independently in their ancestral homes. From a nursing perspective, we discuss the necessary stakeholder groups and describe how these stakeholders should engage to accelerate the integration of health smart homes into real-world settings.
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- Title
- Perspectives on Wider Integration of the Health-Assistive Smart Home
- Authors
- Gordana Dermody (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine - LegacyJenna Mikus (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyDavina Porock (Author) - Edith Cowan UniversityDov Sugarman (Author)Naeem K. Janjua (Author) - Edith Cowan UniversityChristopher How (Author)Roschelle L Fritz (Author) - Washington State University
- Publication details
- Journal of Ageing and Longevity, Vol.2, pp.140-152
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Date published
- 2022
- DOI
- 10.3390/jal2020013
- ISSN
- 2673-9259
- Copyright note
- © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health - Nursing; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99649777502621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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