Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Integrated Care Models in Aged Care: The Role of Technology

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Human-Centered Service Design for Healthcare Transformation

Abstract

Health systems globally are struggling to respond to a rapidly ageing population and promote positive trajectories for healthy ageing. Integrated care models provide an avenue towards care being delivered in a coordinated and structured manner across different levels of care (primary, secondary and tertiary). Technology is vital in providing timely and effective integrated care for older people. Emerging technologies can play a role both in aged care facilities, as well as in-home services. This chapter discusses the role of technology in facilitating or enhancing integrated care models in aged care.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
eBook
USD 16.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 89.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 119.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Australian Digital Health Agency. (2022). My health record in aged care. Australian Digital Health Agency. Retrieved July 21, 2022, from https://www.myhealthrecord.gov.au/for-healthcare-professionals/aged-care.

  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). (2016a). Australian burden of disease study: Impact and causes of illness and death in Australia 2011. In Australian burden of disease study series no. 3. Cat. no. BOD 4. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (Ed.). Australian Burden of Disease Study Series no. 3. BOD 4.

    Google Scholar 

  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2016b). Chapter 3: Chronic disease and comorbitites. In Australia’s health 2016. Australia’s health series no. 15.Cat. no. AUS 199 (pp. 73–83). Canberra: AIHW.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bail, K., Gibson, D., Acharya, P., Blackburn, J., Kaak, V., Kozlovskaia, M., Turner, M., & Redley, B. (2022). Using health information technology in residential aged care homes: An integrative review to identify service and quality outcomes. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 165(2022), 104824. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2022.104824

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Balasubramanian, M., & Short, S. D. (2021a). The future health workforce: Integrated solutions and models of care. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(6), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18062849

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Balasubramanian, M., & Short, S. D. (2021b). A major revamp of health workforce planning and research infrastructure is necessary in Australia. Pearls and Irritations. John Menadue’s Public Policy Journal. Kingston ACT. Retrieved July 21, 2022, from https://johnmenadue.com/a-clear-revamp-of-health-workforce-planning-and-research-infrastructure-is-necessary-in-australia/

  • Baltaxe, E., Czypionka, T., Kraus, M., Reiss, M., Askildsen, J. E., Grenkovic, R., Lindén, T. S., Pitter, J. G., Rutten-van Molken, M., Solans, O., Stokes, J., Struckmann, V., Roca, J., & Cano, I. (2019). Digital health transformation of integrated care in Europe: Overarching analysis of 17 integrated care programs. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 21(9), e14956. https://doi.org/10.2196/14956

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bastani, P., Mohammadpour, M., Samadbeik, M., Bastani, M., Rossi-Fedele, G., & Balasubramanian, M. (2021). Factors influencing access and utilization of health services among older people during the COVID−19 pandemic: A scoping review. Archives of Public Health, 79(1), 190. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13690-021-00719-9

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bayoumy, K., Gaber, M., Elshafeey, A., Mhaimeed, O., Dineen, E. H., Marvel, F. A., Martin, S. S., Muse, E. D., Turakhia, M. P., Tarakji, K. G., & Elshazly, M. B. (2021). Smart wearable devices in cardiovascular care: Where we are and how to move forward. Nature Reviews Cardiology, 18(8), 581–599. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41569-021-00522-7

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bet, P., Castro, P. C., & Ponti, M. A. (2019). Fall detection and fall risk assessment in older person using wearable sensors: A systematic review. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 130, 103946. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2019.08.006

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Britt, H. C., Harrison, C. M., Miller, G. C., & Knox, S. A. (2008). Prevalence and patterns of multimorbidity in Australia. Medical Journal of Australia, 189(2), 72–77.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chang, A. Y., Skirbekk, V. F., Tyrovolas, S., Kassebaum, N. J., & Dieleman, J. L. (2019). Measuring population ageing: An analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. The Lancet Public Health, 4(3), e159–e167. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(19)30019-2

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dakurah, M. N., Koo, C., Choi, W., & Joung, Y.-H. (2015). Implantable bladder sensors: A methodological review. International Neurourology Journal, 19(3), 133–141. https://doi.org/10.5213/inj.2015.19.3.133

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Doraiswamy, S., Jithesh, A., Mamtani, R., Abraham, A., & Cheema, S. (2021). Telehealth use in geriatrics care during the COVID-19 pandemic—a scoping review and evidence synthesis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(4), 1755. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041755

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Fennelly, O., Cunningham, C., Grogan, L., Cronin, H., O’Shea, C., Roche, M., Lawlor, F., & O’Hare, N. (2020). Successfully implementing a national electronic health record: A rapid umbrella review. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 144(July), 104281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2020.104281

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ferguson, C., Inglis, S. C., Breen, P. P., Gargiulo, G. D., Byiers, V., Macdonald, P. S., & Hickman, L. D. (2020). Clinician perspectives on the design and application of wearable cardiac technologies for older adults: Qualitative study. JMIR Aging, 3(1), e17299. https://doi.org/10.2196/17299

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gentry, M. T., Lapid, M. I., & Rummans, T. A. (2019). Geriatric telepsychiatry: Systematic review and policy considerations. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 27(2), 109–127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2018.10.009

  • Hay, S. I., Abajobir, A. A., Abate, K. H., Abbafati, C., Abbas, K. M., Abd-Allah, F., Abdulle, A. M., Abebo, T. A., Abera, S. F., Aboyans, V., Abu-Raddad, L. J., Ackerman, I. N., Adedeji, I. A., Adetokunboh, O., Afshin, A., Aggarwal, R., Agrawal, S., Agrawal, A., Kiadaliri, A. A., Ahmed, M. B., Aichour, A. N., Aichour, I., Aichour, M. T. E., Aiyar, S., Akinyemiju, T. F., Akseer, N., Al Lami, F. H., Alahdab, F., Al-Aly, Z., Alam, K., Alam, N., Alam, T., Alasfoor, D., Alene, K. A., Ali, R., Alizadeh-Navaei, R., Alkaabi, J. M., Alkerwi, A., Alla, F., Allebeck, P., Allen, C., Al-Maskari, F., Almazroa, M. A., Al-Raddadi, R., Geleijnse, J. M. (2017). Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. The Lancet, 390(10100), 1260–1344https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32130-X

  • Haydon, H. M., Caffery, L. J., Snoswell, C. L., Thomas, E. E., Taylor, M., Budge, M., Probert, J., & Smith, A. C. (2021). Optimising specialist geriatric medicine services by telehealth. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 27(10), 674–679. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357633X211041859

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ienca, M., Schneble, C., Kressig, R. W., & Wangmo, T. (2021). Digital health interventions for healthy ageing: A qualitative user evaluation and ethical assessment. BMC Geriatrics, 21(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-021-02338-z

  • Jiang, T., & Yu, P. (2015). The relationship between using electronic health records and meeting accreditation standards for client safety in residential aged care homes. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 214, 134–138.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kaambwa, B., Ratcliffe, J., Shulver, W., Killington, M., Taylor, A., Crotty, M., Carati, C., Tieman, J., Wade, V., & Kidd, M. R. (2017). Investigating the preferences of older people for telehealth as a new model of health care service delivery: A discrete choice experiment. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 23(2), 301–313. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357633X16637725

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Omran, A. R. (2005). The epidemiologic transition: A theory of the epidemiology of population change, 83(4), 731–757.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pilotto, A., Boi, R., & Petermans, J. (2018). Technology in geriatrics. Age and Ageing, 47(6), 771–774. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afy026

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rogelj, V., Salaj, A. T., & Bogataj, D. (2021). Digital transformation of community health and social services for ageing cohorts. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 54(13), 756–761. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2021.10.543

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rothman, B., Leonard, J. C., & Vigoda, M. M. (2012). Future of electronic health records: Implications for decision support. Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine: A Journal of Translational and Personalized Medicine, 79(6), 757–768. https://doi.org/10.1002/msj.21351

  • Runacres, F., Steele, P., Hudson, J., Bills, M., & Poon, P. (2022). We couldn’t have managed without your team: A collaborative palliative care response to the COVID-19 pandemic in residential aged care. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 41(1), 147–152. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajag.13013

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Shetty, P. (2012). Grey matter: Ageing in developing countries. The Lancet, 379(9823), 1285–1287. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60541-8

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tavassoli, N., de Souto Barreto, P., Berbon, C., Mathieu, C., de Kerimel, J., Lafont, C., Takeda, C., Carrie, I., Piau, A., Jouffrey, T., Andrieu, S., Nourhashemi, F., Beard, J. R., Soto Martin, M. E., & Vellas, B. (2022). Implementation of the WHO integrated care for older people (ICOPE) programme in clinical practice: A prospective study. The Lancet Healthy Longevity, 3(6), e394–e404. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-7568(22)00097-6

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. (2019). World Population Ageing 2019. In World Population Ageing 2019. Retrieved July 21, 2022, from https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5204-7_6

  • United Nations. (2019). Shifting demographics; UN75: Shaping our future together. United Nations (UN), Retrieved July 21, 2022, from https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/2019/10/un75_shifting_demographics.pdf

  • Visvanathan, R., Ranasinghe, D. C., Lange, K., Wilson, A., Dollard, J., Boyle, E., Jones, K., Chesser, M., Ingram, K., Hoskins, S., Pham, C., Karnon, J., & Hill, K. D. (2022). Effectiveness of the wearable sensor-based ambient intelligent geriatric management (AmbIGeM) system in preventing falls in older people in hospitals. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, 77(1), 155–163. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glab174

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wahdan, M. (1996). The epidemiological transition. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 2(1), 8–20.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • World Health Organization. (2016). Integrated care models: An overview. Health Services Delivery Programme (pp. 1–31). World Health Organization (WHO, Ed.), Retrieved July 21, 2022, from http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/322475/Integrated-care-models-overview.pdf, http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/322475/Integrated-care-models-overview.pdf, http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/322475/In

  • World Health Organization. (2019). Integrated care for older people: Guidelines on community-level interventions to manage declines in intrinsic capacity. World Health Organization (WHO, Ed.). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96529-1_19

  • World Health Organization. (2021). Ageing and health. World Health Organization (WHO, Ed.): Factsheets. Retrieved July 21, 2022, from https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ageing-and-health

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Health Care Management, College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA, 5001, Australia

    Madhan Balasubramanian, Mark Brommeyer, Lucy Simmonds & Angie Shafei

Authors
  1. Madhan Balasubramanian
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Mark Brommeyer
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Lucy Simmonds
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Angie Shafei
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Madhan Balasubramanian .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Health Management, Neu Ulm University of Applied Sciences, Neu-Ulm, Bavaria, Germany

    Mario A. Pfannstiel

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2023 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Balasubramanian, M., Brommeyer, M., Simmonds, L., Shafei, A. (2023). Integrated Care Models in Aged Care: The Role of Technology. In: Pfannstiel, M.A. (eds) Human-Centered Service Design for Healthcare Transformation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20168-4_22

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation