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Research Center Technology in Care

Conferences

Attended Medicine 2.0'10 (Maastricht, NL)
Monday, November 29, 2010 to Tuesday, November 30, 2010
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Accepted Abstracts

Medicine 2.0'10 (Maastricht, NL)

Activity Monitoring as Part of Care Delivery to Independently Living Seniors.
Charles Willems, Marieke Spreeuwenberg, Loek Van Der Heide, Luc De Witte, John Rietman

Demographic trends in southern Netherlands predict an increasing aging population in the coming decade. Since there will not be enough health providers available to meet the growing demand of care of the elderly, there is a need to reorganize the Dutch health care system in a more efficient way. In this process, innovative technologies can play an important role. With the Quiet Care system the activities of the elderly living at home are automatically monitored. The monitoring is done by plac...

Monitoring of Physical Frailty in Older People: an Innovative System Supporting Self-Management and Care
Jacques Neyens, Jan Vermeulen, Marike Spreeuwenberg, Erik Van Rossum, David Hewson, Luc De Witte

Introduction Frailty is an increasing problem in aging societies. Interventions that delay frailty or prevent its adverse outcomes could diminish the burden placed on frail individuals, informal care, care professionals and the care system. The aim of this project is to develop and evaluate an innovative system for monitoring physical frailty indicators in community-dwelling elderly people. The system gives feedback to the user regarding functional status and alerts the user and/or caregiver...

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