Technologies In Care Giving System Opportunities And Limits GINTER HARNER 2014

Technologies In Care Giving System

Opportunities And Limits

GINTER HARNER2014

Technologies work their way at a rapid pace into all fields, therefore there is no wonder that nursing and care processes become on the fields in which scientists and creators of technologies are interested in.

What possibilities and limits occur while implementing technological solutions in the long-term care giving processes?

Technologies In Care Giving System. Opportunities And Limits.

Where we will go? Or perhaps we will wait.... Beyond doubt we are in the beginning of the

technological innovations progress. But, will Lithuania be the first or the last?

Meanwhile the greatest part of our institutions solve the most primitive problems of first necessity such as:

o Lack of employees;o Application of environment for disabled functional beds,

wheelchairs lifters, pampers and etc; search of funds for purchase of the most indispensable means.


As one hero in the fairytale said: „It is necessary to run so fast in order to stay in place“ (Alice in Wonderland);

We want to believe that it is just a question of time. As the spreading of computers, mobile telephones and other information technologies, as well as the smart nursing technologies is inevitable, unstoppable process, therefore the policy of government in this field should be very active:

o preparation and confirmation of laws;o adjusting of subsidies;o solution of ethical problems;o many European countries already are solving ethical application

problems of technologies, allot funds for creation of prototypes, create charters of technology users, prepare telemonitorings, provide telemedical services and etc.


Possibilities of Communication Technologies for

Elderly People• Skype;• Facebook;• Linkedage (social net of temporary accommodation for elderly

people);

Benefit for client:

1. Visual and verbal communication with family members or other people;

2. To join into like-minded groups, to stay active member of society, to develop ones hobbies, to look for new interest, to broaden once knowledge and outlook.

3. To leave temporary to another locality, receiving apartments for care professional care and possibility to stay active.



Possibilities of Communication Technologies in the care giving process

1.Co-ordination of services rendering;

2. Giving tasks for care givers;

3. Rendering medical services in care homes, can be used these methods: Distance interactive consultations with medical specialists; Transfer of residents health data.

Possibilities from simple to...1. Possibility for individual to call for help without leaving the room

(wireless call up systems);

2. Detector of wet bed;

3. Recognition (identification system for falling down, in other words „Smart floors“ is applied in rooms, bathrooms, when person has no possibilities to call out for help or unconscious).

4. „Self- recording bracelet“ (shows how long the person has been sleeping when he left the room, fixes the rhythm of the heart, blood pressure and sends the departure from the norm to the care worker sensor, by the help of bracelet the disable person can call for the help).

5. Observation system against leaving for people with orientation disorder.


6. „Smart dustbins“ (absorb the smell of used nursing aids).

7. Metering device for drugs (distributes the drugs by single individual doses).

8. Robots-they are simpler, which wash the hair, inform about changed blood pressure and robots for which more complicated tasks are confided, help to move, give sound commands and etc.


Possibilities from simple to..

Robots and extra robot techniques:


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New relation: I, other people and technologies

Researchers and specialists from different fields like: Heidrun Becker (Switzerland) together with Zurich medical university researchers, prof. dr. Thomas Klie (Germany), Dr Leo Matteo Bachinger (Austria), Jean-Baptiste Lavault (France), Tiina Petäjävaara, dr. Päivi Topo (Finland) and others are looking for the answers to such questions:

1. What relationships will be between care worker and resident using technologies?

2. Will be better for people, when care will be provided by robots?

3. Will it necessary to put sensors on a client‘s body in case to evaluate his state?

4. Does GPS mean that you will be noticeable?

5. What is the difference between care and observation?


6. What happens, if the computer will collect information about me all the time ?

7. Will I feel comfortable, when I am observable all the time?

8. What are my rights as a client?

9. Do I want that the system would know, how long times I was in WC, how much water I have drunk, when I wake up, what is the level of my sugar?




• Sensors are monitoring my behavior regularly, register deviations from norms (normal/not normal), transfer to health care specialist. What does it mean?

• Is it ethical to use GPS?• How will my security data operate?• Will we accept the robot as personality substitute?• Robot – is it ethical?• Will we get into new dependency?


Will we accept new technologies?

• Every country has it‘s own standards for services rendering, confidentiality, standards of privacy are different. In nowadays a majority of disable people are imprisoned in their own homes.

• People who participated in experiment with robots assessed them positively, acknowledged their real benefit, but those, who were only acquainted with them, evaluated them negatively.



• The new stage is waiting for us. Yes, I can accept this, but I need more time to adjust to it. It is human as we are often scared of what we do not know.

• To get used to innovations, to learn apply them – it is a huge job.

• It will be necessary to get acquainted clients with new technologies.

• To prove it‘s usefulness.• To train care workers, give evidence in order their could

understand that their health will be cared as well.• The final decision should be taken by the client.



• It is clear that techniques should be twice useful, for care workers and for clients: comfortable, easily usable, nor harmful.

• At the same time we need to develop an irreproachable technical service, it won‘t be perfect.


Benefits:

• Home service for the disable people.• People‘s safety increases, especially at night. The received

information helps to avoid painful consequences.• Due to these technologies residents have more

independence and privacy. Care workers walk into their rooms more rarely and workload reduces.

• Care workers are more responsible as they have to react to urgent requests.


Doubt...

1. Can we think about machines as an active care workers, can technological decisions replace care workers?:• Human eye contact;• Touch;• Word.

2. How is the machine reliable?

3. What happens, if machine does not identify the problem or give us wrong data?

4. Will we use new technologies? It is rhetorical question.

5. Time has been valuable all the time, but pace of life is growing.

6. „Time is money“ – nowadays is more actual than ever.

7. Time should represent interpersonal relations. The more care procedures will technologies perform, the more time we can use to satisfy human needs.

8. The main human need is collaboration.

THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION !

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