Using smart devices for monitoring elderly patients in rural areas of Calabria after COVID-19 vaccination : experiences within the SI4CARE project

Gallo, Alessandro (author), Dimovski, Vlado (author), Kejžar, Anamarija (author), Šemrov, Darja (author)

The SI4CARE project is a transnational project which aims to develop both strategy and action plans to improve health and social care in the Adriatic–Ionian region. Starting from a survey of the status quo, each partner has developed some pilots to support the development and monitoring of the policy actions. In particular, partner number three, the Municipality of Miglierina, designed and developed a pilot related to the use of wearable devices for monitoring elderly patients in rural areas. With the collaboration of the complex unity of primary care (UCCP) of the Reventino area, the pilot is based on the use of smart wearable devices to monitor some parameters of older adults after their vaccinations for flu and covid. This paper focused on the design and implementation of the system. It describes its application in the Municipality of Miglierina. Presentation of the results and a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses will be presented, in detail, in future work. Finally, the possibility of extending the experiment to other Adriatic–Ionian regions is addressed.

• Language: English
• Keywords: telemedicine, telecare, telemonitoring, older, COVID-19, SI4Care
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.03 - Short Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 124-130
• Numbering: Vol. 3, iss. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-147237
• UDC: 614
• ISSN on article: 2673-8112
• DOI: 10.3390/covid3020007
• COBISS.SI-ID: 138647555
• Publication date in RUL: 27.06.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: COVID
• Publisher: MDPI AG
• ISSN: 2673-8112
• COBISS.SI-ID: 78587651

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: European Regional Development Fund via the Programme Interreg ADRION
• Name: Social Innovation for integrated health CARE of ageing population in ADRION Region
• Acronym: SI4CARE