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Title:
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ELDERLY AND HOMECARE TASKS: A LITERATUE REVIEW ON PROBLEMS |
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Author(s):
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Ashiful Alam, Mohammad Zarifi Eslami, Klaas Sikkel |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-70-0 |
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Editors:
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Mário Macedo |
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Year:
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2012 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Homecare systems, elderly common problems, service tailoring. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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211 |
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Last Page:
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216 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Personalization of IT-based homecare services is one of the essential requirements for their successful introduction. A service tailoring process assist a person responsible for deciding on the care activities (the care-giver) to create a personalized composite service for an elderly (the care-receiver) based on the care-givers professional knowledge and with minimal assumptions on their technical knowledge and skills. The outcome of the service tailoring process is called a service plan, which represents a composite service tailored to the specific needs of a care-receiver. Designing such a service plan from scratch is a difficult and time consuming task. The use of patterns can simplify the process of creating a service plan. A service plan pattern, as a starting point for the tailoring process, is a treatment pattern which is an activity structure for handling a generic homecare task. To define the treatment patterns the understanding of problems related to such homecare tasks is necessary. This paper, by means of a literature survey, studies characteristics of common problems faced by elderly and current existing solutions for these problems. We believe that identifying such problems helps IT experts to develop a better understanding of requirements and to define correct and complete treatment patterns. |
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