Editorial

• Published in: Healthcare technology letters Vol. 4; no. 3; p. 82
• Main Authors: Barkan, Refael, Lewy, Hadas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Warwick John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01-06-2017
• Subjects: Age; Aging; Caregivers; Communication; Disease; Medical personnel; Older people; Parkinson's disease; R&D; Research & development; Sensors; Telemedicine
• ISSN: 2053-3713; 2053-3713
• DOI: 10.1049/htl.2017.0044

Prevention, early detection, diagnosis and timely intervention are crucial for management of these large populations, in health and disease, maintaining healthy active ageing with high quality of life. The paper, ‘Improving Adult Day Services through Technology: a User based Approach’, discusses services for an aging population in the community, and the need for personalisation of treatment according to a patient's skills, characteristics of user assessment of the elderly over time to generate knowledge about their psychological and physical conditions, and about the general factors that accelerate/delay deterioration caused by age. [...]early detection, development and implementation of solutions for the elderly requires research and development of adaptive solutions as well as research for better understanding of the barriers and ways to communicate with the elderly population and the implementation processes of technologies for the elderly.