title: VALUE: Virtual Assisted Living Umbrella for the Elderly -- user patterns.
abstract: VALUE is a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of a home telehealth program on the ability of frail elderly individuals to remain living independently in their own home as their self-care abilities decline. VALUE uses broadband access to provide virtual visits with a home care nurse, a Web portal for ordering assisted living services, physiological monitoring, and access to the Internet. Subjects were able to use the VALUE program technology without difficulty after a brief instruction session with the nurse.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Lab. Medicine & Pathology, Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. stan@umn.edu
authors.forename: Stanley M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Finkelstein
authors.forename: Stuart M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Speedie
authors.forename: Xinyu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Edward
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ratner
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Potthoff
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D040561:Assisted Living Facilities; D001698:Biomedical Engineering; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D016330:Frail Elderly; D006701:Home Nursing; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008910:Minnesota; D017216:Telemedicine; D014584:User-Computer Interface