Health Care and Health Service Delivery for the Home Environment
摘要
Older citizens have strong preferences to ageAge in their homes and communities. Progressive frailtyFrailty and adverse healthAdverse health incidents, some following time spent in hospitals and rehabilitationRehabilitationfacilities, make it difficult to satisfy these preferences. Key challenges are to anticipate and to provide, with the help of technological devices and systems, effective health careHealth care in the home that is manageable by older citizens and their health care providersHealth care provider, including family members.