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Smart Health Caring Home: A Systematic Review of Smart Home Care for Elders and Chronic Disease Patients

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GeNeDis 2016

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 989))

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As access to health care is important to people’s health especially for vulnerable groups that need nursing for a long period of time, new studies in the human sciences argue that the health of the population depend less on the quality of the health care, or on the amount of spending that goes into health care, and more heavily on the quality of everyday life. Smart home applications are designed to “sense” and monitor the health conditions of its residents through the use of a wide range of technological components (motion sensors, video cameras, wearable devices etc.), and web-based services that support their wish to stay at home. In this work, we provide a review of the main technological, psychosocial/ethical and economic challenges that the implementation of a Smart Health Caring Home raises.

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  1. Department of Informatics, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece

    Marina Moraitou, Adamantia Pateli & Sotiris Fotiou

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Moraitou, M., Pateli, A., Fotiou, S. (2017). Smart Health Caring Home: A Systematic Review of Smart Home Care for Elders and Chronic Disease Patients. In: Vlamos, P. (eds) GeNeDis 2016 . Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 989. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57348-9_22

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