Improving adult day services through technology: a user-based approach

Jorge Calvillo-Arbizu; Laura M. Roa-Romero; Miguel A. Estudillo-Valderrama; Joaquin Vera-Vera

Improving adult day services through technology: a user-based approach

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Author(s): Jorge Calvillo-Arbizu ^{1, 2} ; Laura M. Roa-Romero ^{1, 2} ; Miguel A. Estudillo-Valderrama ² ; Joaquin Vera-Vera ³
- Affiliations: 1: Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain ;
  2: Grupo de Ingeniería Biomédica, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla 41092, Spain ;
  3: Servicio de Geriatría, Hospital Provincial San Lázaro, Sevilla, Spain
Source: Volume 4, Issue 3, June 2017, p. 97 – 101
DOI: 10.1049/htl.2016.0099 , Online ISSN 2053-3713

This is an open access article published by the IET under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/)

Received 30/11/2016, Accepted 01/03/2017, Revised 21/02/2017, Published 19/04/2017

Adult day services (ADS) are receiving increased attention due to shifts in health and social policies encouraging home and community-based services for an aging population. However, some issues hinder ADS effectiveness such as the need of diversification of interventions focused on elderly people (with different needs and dependency levels) or the undertrained staff. This work presents an analysis of current ADS gaps from interviews to Spanish geriatric experts and scientific literature. An innovative user-based technology implementation is approached to address the most relevant missing gaps identified: formal assessment of user's skills and status before joining the ADS, establishment of personalised interventions for each user, user classification on groups according to characteristics of user members etc. This approach allows to assess elderly over time to generate knowledge about his/her psychological and physical conditions and about the general factors that accelerate/delay deterioration caused by age.

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