title: Health-enabling technologies for the elderly--an overview of services based on a literature review.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Services for the elderly based on health-enabling technologies promise to contribute significantly to the efficiency and effectiveness of future health care. Due to this promise, over the last years the scientific community has designed a complex variety of these valuable innovations. A systematic overview of the developed services would help to better understand their opportunities and limitations.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To obtain a systematic overview of services for the elderly based on health-enabling technologies and to identify archetypical service categories.
  
  
  METHODS
  We conducted a literature review using PubMed and retrieved 1447 publications. We stepwise reduced this list to 27 key publications that describe typical service archetypes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We present six archetypical service categories, namely handling adverse conditions, assessing state of health, consultation and education, motivation and feedback, service ordering and social inclusion and describe their implementation in current research projects.
authors: Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig-Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School, Muehlenpfordtstr. 23, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany. wolfram.ludwig@plri.de
authors: Wolfram
authors: W
authors: Ludwig
authors: Klaus-Hendrik
authors: KH
authors: Wolf
authors: Christopher
authors: C
authors: Duwenkamp
authors: Nathalie
authors: N
authors: Gusew
authors: Nils
authors: N
authors: Hellrung
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Marschollek
authors: Markus
authors: M
authors: Wagner
authors: Reinhold
authors: R
authors: Haux
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D020811:Biomedical Technology; D006801:Humans; D017216:Telemedicine