SECTORAL DEVELOPMENT OF ICT FOR CARE

Year 2017, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 369 - 374, 30.06.2017

Guher Can Vural , Hatice Reyhan Ozgobek

https://doi.org/10.17261/Pressacademia.2017.556

Abstract

Because
of disability and or aging or illness people need long term care services in
specific part of their life.  Health and
social care burden is increasing day by day in the world and our country.  These services are home care, daily care,
residental care, nursing home and paliative care services. These services are
provided elderly people by formal and informal caregivers. Both burden of care
and cost of care is increasing because of growing population of World. For this
reason, using ICT technologies in care services is an important issue that cost
of care services can minimize by using this technologies in care. To
illustrate, following individual diabete rate by far, home security systems for
Alzheimer, easy use technological products for elderly people. Because these
products are popular for people who every aged and from different socio-cultural
levels that they need them. In Turkey, there are techno-parks and entrepreneurs
that work in ICT for care. Nowadays, little part of consumers use ICT for care
in home care services&mobile health care. In Turkey, families are
caregivers in long term care services system mostly. Caring of disabled and
elderly people is costly and hard. For increasing access of care services,
families should be supported by ICT. Thus, existence structure will be
sustainable care and health and social care expenditures will decrease. There
is need of feasible study in ICT for care in our country. To sum up, using of
ICT for care provide spreading of all care services models and relevant
sectoral development. 

Keywords

Disabled people, elderly people, sick, long-term care, information communication technology, sector

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