Testbed Requirements for Technology Enhanced Stroke Rehabilitation to Support Independent Living

Awais Ahmad, Peter Mozelius, Karin Ahlin

2019

Abstract

An identified global phenomenon is that, as the percentage of older adults increases, new challenges arise for medical care and rehabilitation. Several research studies have presented e-health as a promising concept to support the idea of independent living among patients with chronic diseases. The Mid Sweden region has a relatively old population and is a region where people live with long distances to the nearest hospital or health care centres. This study had a focus on defining testbed requirements for a technology enhanced stroke rehabilitation adapted to the specific region. The focal research question to answer in this study was: What are the requirements and their associated benefits and barriers of using technology-enhanced systems instead of traditional techniques for stroke rehabilitation in the Mid Sweden region? With Design Science as the overall research strategy, data was collected by semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders in the field of stroke rehabilitation. A deductive thematic analysis was conducted where important themes were grouped into the four main requirement categories of: Technical, Human-computer-interaction, Clinic and Sustainability. Beside the more specific requirements, an interesting finding was the division of stroke rehabilitation into the categories motoric, cognitive and speech rehabilitation; also, how technology enhanced solutions might be used in these categories. Each category has a potential for a successful use of technology enhanced services, but as the standard procedure in traditional stroke rehabilitation each patient needs a personalised treatment.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ahmad A., Mozelius P. and Ahlin K. (2019). Testbed Requirements for Technology Enhanced Stroke Rehabilitation to Support Independent Living.In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE, ISBN 978-989-758-368-1, pages 174-182. DOI: 10.5220/0007658101740182

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ict4awe19,
author={Awais Ahmad and Peter Mozelius and Karin Ahlin},
title={Testbed Requirements for Technology Enhanced Stroke Rehabilitation to Support Independent Living},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE,},
year={2019},
pages={174-182},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007658101740182},
isbn={978-989-758-368-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE,
TI - Testbed Requirements for Technology Enhanced Stroke Rehabilitation to Support Independent Living
SN - 978-989-758-368-1
AU - Ahmad A.
AU - Mozelius P.
AU - Ahlin K.
PY - 2019
SP - 174
EP - 182
DO - 10.5220/0007658101740182