title: Multi-faceted informatics system for digitising and streamlining the reablement care model.
abstract: Reablement is new paradigm to increase independence in the home amongst the ageing population. And it remains a challenge to design an optimal electronic system to streamline and integrate reablement into current healthcare infrastructure. Furthermore, given reablement requires collaboration with a range of organisations (including national healthcare institutions and community/voluntary service providers), such a system needs to be co-created with all stakeholders involved. Thus, the purpose of this study is, (1) to bring together stakeholder groups to elicit a comprehensive set of requirements for a digital reablement system, (2) to utilise emerging technologies to implement a system and a data model based on the requirements gathered and (3) to involve user groups in a usability assessment of the system. In this study we employed a mixed qualitative approach that included a series of stakeholder-involved activities. Collectively, 73 subjects were recruited to participate in an ideation event, a quasi-hackathon and a usability study. The study unveiled stakeholder-led requirements, which resulted in a novel cloud-based system that was created using emerging web technologies. The system is driven by a unique data model and includes interactive features that are necessary for streamlining the reablement care model. In summary, this system allows community based interventions (or services) to be prescribed to occupants whilst also monitoring the occupant's progress of independent living.
authors.affiliation: School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK. Electronic address: rb.bond@ulster.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Raymond R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Bond
authors.affiliation: School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK.
authors.forename: Maurice D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Mulvenna
authors.affiliation: School of Engineering, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK.
authors.forename: Dewar D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Finlay
authors.affiliation: School of Health Sciences, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK.
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Martin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging; D000067917:Cloud Computing; D003196:Computer Graphics; D016494:Computer Security / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003199:Computer Systems; D003625:Data Collection; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004581:Electronics; D005843:Geography; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000379:methods*; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface
keywords: Health record systems; Reablement; Restorative care