Caregivers for the elderly in Thailand: development and evaluation of an online support system
Autor: | Sukontip Wongpun, Sumanta Guha |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
Předmět: |
Gerontology
05 social sciences Elderly care Library and Information Sciences humanities 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Work (electrical) Elderly people Case-based reasoning Support system 030212 general & internal medicine 0509 other social sciences 050904 information & library sciences Psychology |
Zdroj: | Information Development. 36:112-127 |
ISSN: | 1741-6469 0266-6669 |
DOI: | 10.1177/0266666918821715 |
Popis: | Informal caregivers are playing a major role in helping elderly people with their activities in daily life. The purpose of this work is to develop an Online Support System for Elderly Care (OSSEC) to provide services for informal caregivers in Thailand. The system has six modules which are: patient and caregiver profile manager, elderly care recommender applying case-based reasoning, daily care plan manager, elderly care activity notifier, elderly care information resource locator and caregivers’ social interaction platform. We have established the utility of OSSEC in enhancing the knowledge and ability of informal caregivers and in reducing their stress. In particular, we measured quantitatively the usefulness of OSSEC and evaluated user satisfaction as well. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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