Dignified Ageing in Place Using Electronic Health Records as a Backbone: A Medico-Legal Perspective

Tong, Kar-wai

doi:10.1007/978-981-19-3061-4_9

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“…To better facilitate AIP and build up a risk-free and safe home environment for the elderly, experts and policymakers have attempted to embrace technological assistance over the past decade [38]. For instance, a new generation of technologies known as SHTs has been developed and used in developed countries for the benefit of the elderly community [39,40]. The concept "smart home" refers to a residence equipped with technology that assists in monitoring its occupants and/or promotes independence of the residents in either private and/or care and attention homes for optimum quality of life [41][42][43].…”

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Smart Home Technologies to Facilitate Ageing-in-Place: Professionals Perception

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An ageing population is a global phenomenon. Like other developed economies, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), China, also faces a severe ageing problem. One initiative to enhance the safe living and well-being of the growing elderly population is to assist them by building ageing-friendly living environments with the application of smart home technologies (SHTs). Therefore, this study focused on investigating the perception of professionals on the use of SHTs to improve and enhance the “ageing-in-place” (AIP) of elderly residents in HKSAR, China. A questionnaire survey was employed to obtain the perception of professionals with requisite knowledge of the older people facility needs regarding SHTs in achieving AIP for the elderly. The data retrieved were analysed with different statistical analyses. Based on the results of the analyses, all the professionals had similar perceptions of the use of SHTs for the safety and well-being of the elderly, except for the incongruence observed between the government employees, contractors and academic regarding how SHTs may not help to better monitor elderly daily activities. The possible reasons for the inconsistent opinions of the academics with other groups were linked to the knowledge of human behaviours and early dementia symptoms in gerontology. The findings will help care receivers, healthcare professionals, social workers, policymakers, smart home designers and developers to improve and enhance AIP in elderly residences in HKSAR, China.

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