Effectiveness of a Smart Community- and Home-based Integrated Care Services System for Elderly People

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

smart integrated care services: Provide integrated care services through the 'Hunan Province Integrated Healthcare and Elderly Care Intelligent Service Platform,' including home-based care, mobile medical visits, and remote diagnosis and treatment services."

Study summary

In recent years, the widespread application of emerging information technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, and 5G has made "smart " a new breakthrough in the integrated healthcare and elderly care model. Smart Community- and Home-based Integrated Care Services , utilizing methods such as home hospital beds and mobile medical visits, ensure that key elderly groups with disabilities, dementia, chronic diseases, advanced age, and disabilities can receive the necessary medical services at home. This not only allows the elderly to live in familiar home environments, maintaining their independence and dignity, but also alleviates the pressure on medical resources, enabling more resources to be allocated to emergency care and highly specialized nursing. However, the smart healthcare and elderly care platform model is still in the pilot stage and requires more scientific evidence to verify its actual impact on the health of the elderly.

The purpose： The purpose of this clinical trial is to understand and verify the potential health improvement effects of the smart healthcare and elderly care platform on the elderly. By collecting health indicator data at different time points before and after the intervention, the study will compare the differences in health indicators between community-dwelling elderly who have used the smart healthcare and elderly care platform and those who have not, providing scientific evidence for the promotion of the smart healthcare and elderly care platform model and further facilitating its application and popularization among the elderly in the community.

The main question it aims to answer is: Are community-dwelling elderly who use the smart healthcare and elderly care platform healthier than those who do not use the service? Participants will： Participants will be randomly divided into an experimental group and a control group. The elderly in the experimental group will use the "Hunan Province Integrated Healthcare and Elderly Care Intelligent Service Platform," while the control group will not use the platform for blank control.

Data collection： The research team will collect health indicator data four times, including SF-36, Activities of Daily Living (ADL), and the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), at baseline, 3 months post-intervention, 6 months post-intervention, and 12 months post-intervention.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• SF-36 scale (Short Form 36 Health Survey) — Measurements were taken to obtain data after interventions at three months, six months, and twelve months.
  The SF-36 (Short Form 36 Health Survey) is a tool used to assess health-related quality of life across 8 dimensions, each scored from 0 to 100. A higher score indicates better health. The 8 dimensions are: Physical Functioning (PF): Ability to perform physical activities. Role-Physical (RP): Limitations due to physical health. Bodily Pain (BP): Pain intensity and impact. General Health (GH): Overall health perception. Vitality (VT): Energy levels and fatigue. Social Functioning (SF): Impact on social activities. Role-Emotional (RE): Limitations due to emotional problems. Mental Health (MH): Psychological well-being. Scores are calculated based on responses, with 0 representing the worst health and 100 the best. The higher the total score, the better the health.

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