Literature Review on Technologies Used in Aged Care

This literature review explores the technologies used in aged care for providing better facility towards the elderly. It discusses the purpose, theories, objectives, problems, research questions, brainstorming, and conclusions related to the topic.

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Table of Contents
Purpose of the literature review.......................................................................................................2
Theories used for literature review..................................................................................................2
Objective of the paper......................................................................................................................3
Identification of the problems..........................................................................................................3
Research questions...........................................................................................................................5
Brainstorm.......................................................................................................................................5
Literature review..............................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

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Purpose of the literature review
The main aim of the paper is to describe the emerging technologies that are used in aged
care for providing better facility towards the old people. There are different types of technologies
that are used for providing care towards the aged people. This are divided into supportive care
and empowering the seniors so that they can maintain an effective lifestyle. There is a high need
to have proper technologies implemented within the aged care so that they can work for
providing better satisfaction towards the elder persons in an aged care. The main purpose of this
paper is to describe the technologies used within the aged care. With the use of enhanced
technologies it is observed that it becomes easy to handle the health condition for elder person.
The literature review will also focus on the way enhanced technology will help in diminishing
risks and dangers. The technology needs to be analyzed effectively so that its implications on the
aged industry can be understood effectively.
Theories used for literature review
The theories that are basically used for conducting a research paper are formulating the
research questions and objectives. The main research objective is to determine the main
technologies that are used in maintaining proper aged care. The main technologies that are used
for having proper facilities towards the health off aged people include wearable devices for
determining the health condition of the old people. In addition to this smart medicine concept is
also implemented within the aged care so that they can provide better track of the medication
usage. Smart medicines are used for providing patients with proper medication that will help in
providing proper alert towards the users (Khosravi & Ghapanchi, 2016). This will help in

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maintaining proper solutions towards the users. After this it is important to have proper analysis
of the data so that they can have a better control over the shared data. The data related to each
content needs to be extracted. This methodology helps in preparing better literature review for
understanding the major technologies applied for providing better healthcare towards the aged
people.
Objective of the paper
The main aim behind developing the paper is to provide a better knowledge regarding the
technologies used in aged care. It is observed that assistive technology is one of the effective
technologies that are described as a framework that provides support towards an individual for
addressing the issues faced by them. The technologies that are used within the aged care includes
strolling sticks, snatch railed, shower seats and electro mechanical gear. Several researches has
stated that using assistive technology is a better approach that helps in maintaining proper health
towards the elderly individuals (Yusif, Soar & Hafeez-Baig, 2016). Thus this research paper will
help in analyzing all the main technologies that helps in maintain proper health for aged people.
It is observed that cloud based management solutions are implemented within healthcare for
providing better flexibility towards the individuals.
Identification of the problems
The main reason behind performing this research is to analyze the technologies that are
developed for overcoming the challenges. With the growing technologies and population it is
observed that the numbers of people at aged care are increasing. Thus this leads to high need of
proper management. However while analyzing the profession of aged care it is observed that

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there major challenges faced by the people of this sector. The main challenges that are faced is
that there is lack of skilled staffs. As a result it becomes difficult to provide quality support
towards the people at aged care. It becomes important to have quality staffs that will provide
extreme support towards the individuals. There is a high need to have effective staffs that will be
able to build a proper trust with their patients so that they can maintain a healthy relationship. It
is important for every sector to have a proper communication between the staffs and customers
so that effective solution can be provided towards them. Skilled staffs will be able to manage the
issues quickly and will be able to provide effective support towards the aged people (Yusif, Soar
& Hafeez-Baig, 2016). This is one of the most important factors.
Secondly it is observed that there are some aged cares that have heavy regulations and
needs proper implications so that they can maintain a proper health of the people present within
the aged care. Heavy regulation sometimes affects the benefits that are obtained by older people
and also tends to affect the care service providers (Vichitvanichphong et al., 2014). Thus it
becomes crucial factor to manage the challenges faced so that they can maintain a healthy
relationship.
The third problem that is being highlighted with the aged care is the financial stability. It
is observed that several aged care is facing financial stability due to shifting towards different
service providers. Moreover in order to maintain a better quality it is observed that the excellent
care is becoming a reason for shrinking budgets. This is turning ought to be a looming challenge
for the aged care services.

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Thus with these research it will become easy to analyze the major problems faced by
aged care. The main objective is to address the problems faced by healthcare and to discuss the
technologies that are being implemented for overcoming these challenges.
Research questions
What are the ways to provide an effective care towards the people of aged care?
What solution will be able to save data properly regarding patients?
What is the need of assistive technology?
Brainstorm
Brainstorming is referred to the method that is used for generating ideas so that the
problems associated with a particular section can be resolved. The problems that are faced with
aged care are discussed above and brainstorming helps in solving these issues with a new idea.
Technology has been evolved in a different way for enhancing the potentials offered by
healthcare towards the individuals. With implementation of effective health application and
website development it becomes easy to enhance the emotional prosperity towards the elder
individuals. In addition to this health application also provides better physical health towards the
individuals. Moreover technology has the potential to provide proper empowerment towards the
older individuals so that they can stay connected with their families. With the new
implementation of technology it is observed that several organizations have empowered
electronic medicines that will help in screening proper solutions effectively and will help in
managing the solution. In addition to this it is observed that aged care residential facilities are

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provided so that they can provide proper broadband web access to their occupants which will
turn to be one of the effective instruments.
Literature review
According to the author Jakicicet al., (2016), it is important to have proper advancement
within the technology provided towards the aged care so that it can upgrade the facilities
provided towards the individuals. The main approaches that are implemented by aged care
include enhancing the operational efficiencies, expanding the ability to oversee the constrained
resources effectively and minimizing the risks and dangers. Moreover it is important to train the
nursing stuffs affectively so that they can provide customized care towards the aged people.
There are different types of data innovating that helps in producing effective care towards the
aged care departments. In addition to this the aged care has implemented online correspondence
portals for providing customers. This also helps in choosing proper specialist for an individual.
Researches have showed that with the implementation or proper wearable gadget it becomes
easy to diagnosis the health condition of a patient (Mukhopadhyay, 2015). The portable handheld
gadget helps in providing better insight towards the customer and other data maintained within
the system. The wearable device helps in analyzing the health condition of aged people on daily
basis and also generates report based on this.
According to the author Bhatt & Bhatt, (2017), internet of things are being implemented
within te healthcare sector so that it becomes easy to operate on data share within the sector. This
sector has implemented IoT within the caregiver, patients and doctors in the form of seamless
web that helps in sharing proper information with great ease and also enhances the process. This
has also enabled the aged care providers to have proper health report, to maintain effective diet

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and other factors that will help in providing an effective care giving process. Implementation of
this technology has helped in improving both the customer engagement and experience to a great
level. The major challenges that were faced with the aged care was the lack of skilled staffs.
However with the implementation of IoT it becomes easy to manage the patients. Moreover this
also reduces the need of skilled staffs. IoT will help in connecting the patients directly with the
doctors. Apart from all this the aged care has also implemented robots for providing better
assistance towards the staffs present within this sector (Alldred et al., 2016). This helps the
patients to get reminders regarding the medication that are needed to be taken by them on
frequently basis. Moreover it is observed with the use of effective robots it becomes easy to
monitor the activities performed by each patient.
According to the author Baig et al., (2017), with the development of smart medicines it
becomes easy to have a proper control over medication provided towards the customers. The
wearable device helps in providing better aged care towards the technology. Smart pills and
smart medication holders are being stored edible sensors sp that it becomes easy to formulate the
information effectively within the aged care. One more innovation that has taken place within
aged care sector is the development of 3D printed food it is observed that there are several aged
people who find it difficult to chew and digest the meals. In order to overcome such situation it
becomes important to have a proper dysphagia compound. With the implementation of 3D
printed food it becomes easy to provide proper nutrients towards the aged people. With the use
of 3 D printed food the food is pureed that makes easier to eat while maintaining the care giving
process (Larush et al., 2017). In addition to this floor sensors are also installed in different
homes, aged care and hospitals so that it becomes easy to manage the facilities provided towards
the aged care people. This process becomes very useful for the aged care people and also helps in

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maintaining proper health of the individuals. The sensors are implemented within the mats so
that they can maintain movements and will alert the family members in case any harm is caused
towards the aged people by falling in accidentally. This will help the aged individuals to receive
emergency assistance and will also cure them as soon as possible.
Conclusion
Thus from the above report it can be stated that with the implementation of new
technologies it will become easy to maintain a better health towards the aged people. Moreover
there are several challenges faced with the working of the aged care. Thus it is important to have
a proper technology that will help in managing the technology. The paper has reviewed the main
technologies so that they can provide better support towards the patients. The technology
identified plays a major role in providing better healthcare facility. Thus it can be stated that the
implementation of new technologies will help in managing better health of the aged individuals.
The main technology that is being implemented and ha s a great impact is the wearable devices.
This helps in maintaining proper knowledge regarding the health of aged care. It is important to
understand the benefit that comes along with the implementation of new technology. This helps
in maintaining a proper health for the people present within the aged care. With the help of this
literature review it will become easy to manage the information and will also help in future.

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