SECTORAL DEVELOPMENT OF ICT FOR CARE

Authors : Guher Can VURAL, Hatice Reyhan OZGOBEK

Pages : 369-374

Doi:10.17261/Pressacademia.2017.556

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Publication Date : 2017-06-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Because of disability and or aging or illness people need long term care services in specific part of their life.  Health and social care burden is increasing day by day in the world and our country.  These services are home care, daily care, residental care, nursing home and paliative care services. These services are provided elderly people by formal and informal caregivers. Both burden of care and cost of care is increasing because of growing population of World. For this reason, using ICT technologies in care services is an important issue that cost of care services can minimize by using this technologies in care. To illustrate, following individual diabete rate by far, home security systems for Alzheimer, easy use technological products for elderly people. Because these products are popular for people who every aged and from different socio- cultural levels that they need them. In Turkey, there are techno-parks and entrepreneurs that work in ICT for care. Nowadays, little part of consumers use ICT for care in home care services&mobile health care. In Turkey, families are caregivers in long term care services system mostly. Caring of disabled and elderly people is costly and hard. For increasing access of care services, families should be supported by ICT. Thus, existence structure will be sustainable care and health and social care expenditures will decrease. There is need of feasible study in ICT for care in our country. To sum up, using of ICT for care provide spreading of all care services models and relevant sectoral development. 
Keywords : Disabled people, elderly people, sick, long term care, information communication technology, sector