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WORKSHOP
AGEING WELLINTEGRATING HEALTHY AGING
AND CHRONICITYDr Ignasi Sáez [email protected]
GeriatricianDepartment of Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care
Badalona Serveis AssistencialsBarcelona, 17th January 2013
The voice of the end users of HSH:Elderly and carers views about the
Home Sweet Home Project
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Difficulties
Benefits
Further improvements
difficulties
Accepting use of something new I am all right as I am now
I don’t need any machine to keep on with my life I am afraid of using the, in case I break them
downAccepting use and confident to technology
Anyway, I know that this will never work properly Uau…darling! This is too much complicated!
difficulties
Changing their home environment
Do you mean that so many wires…
…and this blinking light will not be too power consuming?
Changing their free daily schedule
…and it will be necessary to take my blood pressure every day. I
have never done that!
difficulties Cognitive and functional abilities to
perform Use of control remote with several steps
– In which channel did you said that my daughter appeared on TV?
Turn back to Home page before measurement
– (for the third time) Oh, I see, so I need to press here each time I want to take my blood pressure?
Put arm blood pressure monitor– I tried several times but the blood pressure
results where inappropriate. I decided to take my own wrist blood pressure monitor.
difficulties
Cognitive and functional abilities to perform Switch off Smoke alarm
– It was horrible, I could only leave this loud noise until my son could come and switched it off
Outdoor mobility for Mambo usage I am not really using this telephone because I don’t go
out usually, and in case I I always go with someone else.
benefits
Clinical team visits: increased personal contact I thank you for coming home frecuently, my GP
is not able to do so as much as I would like…Feeling secure at home: 24h contact
…at least I know I can call any time pressing this red button.
once I did not contact my daughter because it was too late at night. I did not know what to do…
Now I can use this device
benefits
Confidence in health situation and progress I can monitor my lost of weight easier than I would do
going to the pharmacy Cognitive training opportunity in normal ageing
I find it really interesting to be able to play with these funny games
Oh, I can finally improve my memory. I keep on forgetting many things lately, you know…
Early contact in case of emergency They contacted me immediately although I was not feeling out of breath. They anyway suggested me to
contact the Emergency number for a urgent assessment.
further improvements
Enthusiasm. Human value.
Frailty as target phenotype. Improving fine
selection: which old person is more suitable to what services.
Design priority: listen to end user! Improve a system adaptable enough to each
reality
Thanks for your attention!