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Innovations in Designing Territorial Platforms for Elderly Homecare Services in France

Authors:
Christian Bourret
Thérèse Depeyrot

Keywords: Territories; Healthcare; Digital Transformation; innovations; France; elderly people.

Abstract:
With the evolution of the demographic situation and the increase of the life expectancy, elderly people represent a large portion of the population. Their healthcare has become a real concern. As a result of important changes in the way of life, many of the elderly people live away from their children, so that they have to resort to getting services from local institutions when they become dependent. There are not enough accommodation establishments for the elderly people, and many of them prefer to stay at home. Our work takes into account the widespread wish of the elderly to stay at home longer, event when they become dependent. In this paper, we propose a new model regarding establishments for the elderly called “outside the walls” which may offer a solution, providing an appropriate and full array of services for homecare. The observation of some experiments for this model enables to consider that it may help to provide homecare services on a larger scale and open the way to the necessary transformations.

Pages: 1 to 8

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2021

Publication date: July 18, 2021

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8351

ISBN: 978-1-61208-884-6

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 18, 2021 to July 22, 2021