Projects / Programmes
Application of telemedicine in elderly and early signs of dementia
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 3.09.00 |
Medical sciences |
Psychiatry |
|
| Code |
Science |
Field |
| B650 |
Biomedical sciences |
Psychiatry, clinical psychology, psychosomatics |
| B680 |
Biomedical sciences |
Public health, epidemiology |
| B540 |
Biomedical sciences |
Respiratory system |
| T171 |
Technological sciences |
Microelectronics |
| T180 |
Technological sciences |
Telecommunication engineering |
telemedicine, elderly, dementia
Researchers (10)
| no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
02058 |
Tatjana Berger |
Public health (occupational safety) |
Researcher |
2007 - 2010 |
245 |
| 2. |
18329 |
PhD Josip Car |
Public health (occupational safety) |
Researcher |
2007 - 2010 |
244 |
| 3. |
12218 |
PhD Metoda Dodič Fikfak |
Public health (occupational safety) |
Researcher |
2007 - 2008 |
1,229 |
| 4. |
25402 |
PhD Jože Guna |
Communications technology |
Researcher |
2007 - 2010 |
237 |
| 5. |
24404 |
PhD Matej Mertik |
Computer science and informatics |
Researcher |
2007 - 2009 |
127 |
| 6. |
10458 |
PhD Borut Peterlin |
Human reproduction |
Researcher |
2007 - 2010 |
842 |
| 7. |
03410 |
PhD Drago Rudel |
Medical sciences |
Researcher |
2007 - 2010 |
193 |
| 8. |
01491 |
PhD Uroš Janez Stanič |
Systems and cybernetics |
Researcher |
2007 - 2010 |
262 |
| 9. |
31331 |
Blanka Zalar |
Psychiatry |
Researcher |
2009 - 2010 |
0 |
| 10. |
05379 |
PhD Bojan Zalar |
Medical sciences |
Head |
2007 - 2010 |
175 |
Organisations (2)
Abstract
For over 30 years, the personnel within the Slovene health care system has been using advanced telecommunications and information technology for the purpose of health improvement. Telemedicine, which is an interweave of innovativity and technological progress, represents a pivotal and currently an extremely important breakthrough in the area of effective and indispensable approach to health maintenance. Through it, electronic information and communication technologies are employed in the performance and supporting of treatment and disease prevention. It also represents a new organisation of the health care system in general, although currently it is still focused on health care users in rural areas. Nevertheless, the need for using telemedicine at highly specialised clinics and institutes has already been recognised. A pilot study in the elderly, for example, will represent a prototype for the use of telemedicine in other areas of health care as well.
According to a study performed by the United Nations for Europe [UN], in the year 2050 people aged 65 or over will constitute 30% of the total European population, and 18% of them will be over 80 years old. With time, the ageing process gradually reduces a person’s ability for independent living in their own environment. Europe has come to realise that the problem of ensuring agreed-upon health- care and social rights for this category of the population can no longer be solved using only the models employed to date, because they are simply financially insupportable. New solutions need to be developed and new types of management should be introduced, along with new approaches and services which will be more effective in providing assistance to these persons and will be financially less demanding than institutional care.
This project involves a proposal for the development of a telemedical service that will enable the following:
- safer and monitored residence in the living environment;
- dissemination of information about the threat of potential epidemics and other risks from the environment;
- warnings related to maintenance treatment for chronic and long-term diseases;
- possibility of continued communication between patients and their health care professionals;
- objective monitoring of the health of the elderly;
- objective monitoring of persons with dementia.
Within the framework of this project, we will provide the appropriate telecommunication infrastructure, IT support and equipment, and prepare the programmes needed for monitoring and evaluation of results. A solution which should be innovative on the European scale, will be verified in a controlled environment of a nursing or retirement home, and will include volunteers with initial signs of dementia. This solution will also serve as the basis for many other telemedical applications in the field of health care.
Significance for science
Telemedicine is a wide progress of different sciencies for better efficiency of proceedings of the elderly and patients with dementia.
Significance for the country
Telemedicine is an important step in development of slovenian health reorganization.
Most important scientific results
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Most important socioeconomically and culturally relevant results
Annual report
2008,
2009
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