Healthy at Home

Jonathan Williams, Nigel H. Lovell (), Nicholas Goodwin (), Ahmadreza Argha and Paul Egglestone ()
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Jonathan Williams: University of New South Wales
Nigel H. Lovell: University of New South Wales
Nicholas Goodwin: University of Newcastle
Ahmadreza Argha: University of New South Wales
Paul Egglestone: FASTLAB

Chapter 38 in Handbook of Integrated Care, 2025, pp 705-732 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The ability to support integrated care to people with health and social care needs living at home has become a preferred policy option in many countries to promote independent living, but also to reduce institutionalization in hospitals and care homes. Healthy at Home is an Australian initiative, led by the University of New South Wales and the NSW Smart Sensing Network, to develop viable sensor-based technologies that support community-dwelling older people to live in their home as safe and well as possible, but which also connects people more effectively to the community and aged care providers that support them. This chapter takes a deep dive into the range of emerging sensor-based technologies created to support this, including attention to measuring people’s vital signs, biomechanics, falls detection, and functional monitoring. It concludes that such new technologies can transform people’s experiences of care and, therefore, should be a major tool in supporting future home-based integrated care programs.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-96286-8_104

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