TY - GEN
T1 - An informal carer hub to support carers looking after COPD patients in the UK and Netherlands
AU - Sobnath, Drishty
AU - Philip, Nada
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - In the UK, about 3 million people live with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Informal carers such as family and friends play a vital role in promoting well-being among older adults suffering from COPD. However, difficulties experienced by caregivers are increasing and affecting their quality of life. New technologies and innovations such as m-health have the potential in reducing the burden of these carers. In this paper, we propose an informal carer hub (ICH), which is part of the WELCOME EU project to help informal carers better manage COPD patients in two European countries: the UK and the Netherlands. The acceptability of the system has been tested by making use of a modified version of the technology acceptance model (TAM 3). The aim of this study was to ensure that the proposed informal carer application is easy to learn, effective to use and acceptable from the informal carers’ perspectives.
AB - In the UK, about 3 million people live with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Informal carers such as family and friends play a vital role in promoting well-being among older adults suffering from COPD. However, difficulties experienced by caregivers are increasing and affecting their quality of life. New technologies and innovations such as m-health have the potential in reducing the burden of these carers. In this paper, we propose an informal carer hub (ICH), which is part of the WELCOME EU project to help informal carers better manage COPD patients in two European countries: the UK and the Netherlands. The acceptability of the system has been tested by making use of a modified version of the technology acceptance model (TAM 3). The aim of this study was to ensure that the proposed informal carer application is easy to learn, effective to use and acceptable from the informal carers’ perspectives.
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-13-9920-6_33
DO - 10.1007/978-981-13-9920-6_33
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9789811399190
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 315
EP - 322
BT - Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications
PB - Springer
T2 - 7th International Conference on FICTA 2018
Y2 - 29 November 2018 through 30 November 2018
ER -