Evaluation of the web-based care-requiring client and Home Helper support system

Author

Ogawa, Hidekuni ; Yonezawa, Yoshiharu ; Maki, Hiromichi ; Caldwell, W. Morton

Author_Institution

Dept. of Information & Intellectual Syst., Hiroshima Inst. of Technol.

fYear

2006

Firstpage

3714

Lastpage

3716

Abstract

In Japan, home helpers are employed by hospitals, care companies or the welfare office, and are sent to homes of elderly persons to provide home welfare and care services. The care items for one month are scheduled by the care manager; however, the care items are often changed by request from the client, and the home helpers need to know these changes as soon as possible. The Web-based care-requiring client and home helper support system is employing for improvement of the problem. In this study, we have evaluated the data entry time, the operation of choosing the items, the legibility of buttons displayed on the LCD, and the comprehensibility of displayed care item buttons. The evaluation found the data entry to be an easy operation

Keywords

Internet; geriatrics; patient care; telemedicine; LCD; Web-based care-requiring client; care services; data entry time; displayed care item button comprehensibility; elderly persons; home helper support system; home welfare; Biology computing; Biomedical computing; Central office; Computer displays; Home computing; Internet; Java; Liquid crystal devices; Liquid crystal displays; Mobile handsets;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8741-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1617289

Filename

1617289