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Digital homecare is a phrase that is easily understood and can be described as a container expression. Assistive technology, telemedicine, mhealth, rehabilitation, are all contained within digital homecare. But it is impossible to find a proper definition of digital homecare. Looking for “digital homecare” in PubMed or Google Scholar delivers less than a dozen results. An important modern reference site like Wikipedia has no entry for it. There is a “lack of empirical evidence to support or refute the use of smart home technologies within health and social care, which is significant for practitioners and the healthcare consumer”. [1]
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Yogesan, K., Bos, L., Brett, P., Gibbons, M.C. (2009). Digital Homecare – An Introduction. In: Yogesan, K., Bos, L., Brett, P., Gibbons, M.C. (eds) Handbook of Digital Homecare. Series in Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01387-4_1
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