Analytic Hierarchy Process to Define the Most Important Factors and Related Technologies for Empowering Elderly People in Taking an Active Role in their Health

Successful management of health conditions in older population is determined by strategic involvement of a professional team of careers and by empowering patients and their caregivers to take over a central role and responsibility in the daily management of condition. Identifying, structuring and ra...

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Published in:Journal of medical systems 2015-09, Vol.39 (9), p.98-98, Article 98
Main Authors: Fico, G., Gaeta, E., Arredondo, M. T., Pecchia, L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aging
Chronic illnesses
Collaboration
Decision making
Empowerment
Health
Health Education - methods
Health Informatics
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health Sciences
Hierarchies
Humans
Management
Mathematical models
Medical personnel
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Older people
Partnerships
Patient Care Team - organization & administration
Patient Participation - methods
Patient Participation - psychology
Patients
Power (Psychology)
Professional development
Professionals
Quality improvement
Statistics for Life Sciences
Strategy
Systems-Level Quality Improvement
UCAmI & IWAAL 2014
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Summary:Successful management of health conditions in older population is determined by strategic involvement of a professional team of careers and by empowering patients and their caregivers to take over a central role and responsibility in the daily management of condition. Identifying, structuring and ranking the most important needs related to these aspects could pave the way for improved strategies in designing systems and technological solutions supporting user empowerment. This paper presents the preliminary results of a study aiming to elicit these needs. Healthcare professionals, working together in the European and Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA) initiative, have defined a set of needs and factors that have been organized in two hierarchies around the concepts of patient activation and proactive and prepared care team , defined in the Chronic Care Model. The two hierarchies have been mapped, by a team of experts in computer science, with technologies and solutions that could facilitate the achievement of the identified needs.
ISSN:0148-5598
1573-689X
DOI:10.1007/s10916-015-0300-9