Smarter, Safer Homes for the Ageing and Disabled Person Pilot Study to investigate the feasibility, acceptance, usage and impact of providing a smart home platform with environmental sensors and mobile techniques to facilitate safe living of older and disabled Australians.
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Monitoring and deriving relevant information of health status in elderly participants/young people with disability to enable independent living and support from family/relative or health care providerPublic Health - Health service research
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12615000029594
- Lead Sponsor
- CSIRO Digital Productivity Flagship
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 5
Inclusion Criteria
Over 65 years of age or under 65 years of age with disability, have an Internet Service Provider (ISP) connection to broadband internet, are living independently or intend to live independently, and require no home care support.
Exclusion Criteria
Live in an aged care facility; have constant 24 hr/7 day a week nursing support; are residents of nursing home facility, no internet access; unwilling to utilise a touch screen device for connectivity. Pre-existing diagnosed condition with compromised cognition or previous early on-set of dementia
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Independent living scales or Activities of Daily Living (ADL) (Mobility, Meal, Hygiene, Transfer, Dress) assessed through tools including Katz index (for ageing people) and Barthel Index (for disabled people)[6 and 12 months]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Develop methods to recognise and identify individual activity profile(s) in multi-resident homes through sensors, which will be assessed by comparing against routine activity data such as indoor movements, sit/stand postural transfer, bed time, collected through wearable sensors (such as bluetooth tag, accelerometer sensors), and meal preparation, shower taking, shopping collected by the daily routine questionnaire.[6 to 12 months]