Open AccessDevelopment of a smart post-hospitalization facility for older people by using domotics, robotics, and automated tele-monitoring
Author(s) -
Carlotta Patrone,
Alberto Cella,
Chiara Martini,
Silvia Pericu,
Rosetta Femia,
Annalisa Barla,
Claudia Porfirione,
Matteo Puntoni,
Nicola Veronese,
Francesca Odone,
Niccolò Casiddu,
Gian Andrea Rollandi,
Alessandro Verri,
Alberto Pilotto
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
geriatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2465-1397
pISSN - 2465-1109
DOI - 10.4081/gc.2019.8122
Subject(s) - robotics , medicine , artificial intelligence , test (biology) , autonomy , wearable technology , wearable computer , physical medicine and rehabilitation , robot , computer science , embedded system , paleontology , political science , law , biology
Recent studies showed that about the 8% of beds are occupied by patients who experience a delayed hospital discharge (DHD). This is attributed to a delay in the arrangement of home-care assistance or in admission to long-term care facilities. Recently a lot of technologies have been developed to improve caring and monitoring of older people. The aim of this study is to design, implement and test a prototype of a technology based post-hospitalization facility for older people at risk of DHD by using domotics, robotics and wearable sensors for tele-monitoring. A sensorised posthospitalization facility has been built inside the hospital. Thirty-five healthy volunteers aged from 20 to 82 years were recruited. Clinical and functional assessment, i.e. motility index (MI), and human-robot interaction satisfaction were measured. A significant correlation was observed between automatic MI and the Gait Speed, the time sit-to-stand, and the Timed Up and Go test. Domotics, robotics and technology-based telemonitoring may represent a new way to assess patient’s autonomy and functional and clinical conditions in an ecological way, reproducing as much as possible a real life at home.