| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/P01013X/1 |
| Title: |
STRETCH: Socio-Technical Resilience for Enhancing Targeted Community Healthcare |
| Principal Investigator: |
Price, Professor B |
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| Department: |
Faculty of Sci, Tech, Eng & Maths (STEM) |
| Organisation: |
Open University |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research |
| Starts: |
01 April 2017 |
Ends: |
28 February 2021 |
Value (£): |
1,049,532
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Human-Computer Interactions |
Software Engineering |
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| Panel History: |
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06 Sep 2016
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Intelligent Technologies Prioritisation Panel
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Announced
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Summary on Grant Application Form |
Treating older adults for medical conditions is complicated because they may need treatment for multiple conditions and they may also have chronic conditions such as reduced strength, mobility, hearing, eyesight or cognitive impairments such as dementia. This means hospital in-patient treatments may take longer and they may be unable to leave hospital to recover at home if they do not have a spouse/partner or family/friends/neighbours able to look after them. Older adults recovering at home frequently rely on 'circles of support' which range from relatives and neighbours, to the voluntary sector, social workers, paid carers, and medical professionals.
The STRETCH project aims to help coordinate these circles of support with both wearable and smart home technologies to enhance the social and technical resilience of these circles of support. This should have the double benefit of increasing NHS capacity to cope with increasing numbers of older patients while improving care by making sure that medical professionals have timely and accurate information at all times about their patients. By having intelligently combined both the human and sensor-based sources of data, physicians will be able to recognize when a patient is deteriorating and intervene early to pre-empt problems or longer hospital stays.
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http://www.open.ac.uk |