As the US population continues to age, providing good elderly care becomes increasingly important. Although many elderly Americans are in good health and live in their own homes, there is a growing need for providing more complex healthcare in people's own homes. But, not all caregivers have the means and resources to provide a complete range of care that is needed to detect critical changes in health status quickly. In this situation, caregivers and outside services need extra effort to coordinate and effectively track changes in health conditions over time. To help guide and monitor care in such situations, increased use of technology has been brought to support home caregiving, including networked health-monitoring devices, software systems, and apps.
In this article, Faivish Pewzner, chief operating officer of the Americare Companies discusses some of the options available for different types of professional and non-professional caregivers and services in the U.S.
Home care and technology go hand-in-hand. In today’s tech-connected culture, health care delivery is smarter, faster, and cheaper. Advances in technology have brought us gadgets including smart pain relief wand, automatic sensors, and remote monitoring systems that share health data with family or health providers. Spawned by the ubiquity the web, technology makes remote caregiving possible, enabling over 6 million Americans to care for loved ones from afar. Namely, as Faivish Pewzner explains, the practice of telemedicine makes it possible to diagnose, monitor, and treat conditions all from a patient’s home. That means, with today’s development, virtually anything that is available at a hospital or through a physician can be done at home, reducing cost and improving quality of life.
Modern technology has elevated home care’s limitless potential. Home care technology now provides essential tools to permit caregivers to support their elderly parents at a cost-effective scale. Many technologies have been developed to improve patient outcomes and lower the overall cost of care delivery while the patients remain at home. Americare Companies' COO Faivish Pewzner says hardly a day goes by without a new product or solution coming on-line, and yet he believes that the best is still to come.