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Significant health-industry human resource needs increase the reliance on family and friends to support older adults hoping to age in place. This book explores how recent improvements in integrated home technologies have the potential to address those challenges. The book considers how embedded home sensors can be used to monitor the health and wellbeing of older adults and how that can be used to assist with supporting safety and well-being. The content is designed to help multiple stakeholders in the supportive smart home space to better understand the complexity of this field and the need for transdisciplinary collaboration. These stakeholders include the older adults who will benefit from supportive smart home technology;  informal and formal caregiver and healthcare professionals concerned about the older adult’s well-being; researchers from multiple disciplines in the supportive smart home area and their funders; companies looking to develop solutions and services or expand their offerings; policy makers who want to ensure privacy and equity in access and a successful integration of these technologies into the evolving health and social services sectors; and students, the future leaders in AgeTech. Overall, the intent of the book is to inspire engineers, computer scientists, industrial designers, clinicians and healthcare providers, social scientists, students, policy makers, and older adults and their caregivers to collaborate in advancing the supportive smart home space to develop more options for aging in place.

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Join us on Wednesday, January 20!

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the vulnerability of Long Term Care (LTC) homes throughout the world, with many countries reporting a troubling number of cases and deaths in LTC. Infection prevention and control protocols for hospital settings are relatively well-established to support hand hygiene, donning and doffing of personal protective equipment, cleaning and disinfection, and isolating and cohorting cases. Yet the protocols for LTC have not been examined to the same extent when developed and deployed rapidly to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers have recognized the neglect of human factors, principles and research methods in infection prevention and control for LTC to be a weakness in the healthcare field. In this talk Professor Chantal Trudel will discuss how she and a team of researchers will address how the redevelopment of Canada’s long-term care homes infrastructure is crucial in balancing infection prevention and control (IPAC) with residents’ quality of life and care, particularly during pandemic conditions such as COVID-19. Design of Long-Term Care Homes (LTC): Learning for the Future Wednesday, January 20, 2021, from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. EDT (Hosted Online via Zoom)

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Infection prevention and control in clinical settings is challenging enough. What about in long-term care and retirement homes – places that are designed to have communal and open spaces?

Chantal Trudel of �Ӱ�ԭ�� University’s School of Industrial Design is working with investigators from the �����ܲ�è���� Research Institute and the Ontario Centres for Learning, Research and Innovation at �����ܲ�è���� with nearly $40,000 in funding from the Foundation for Health Environments Research in the United States to study the design of Canadian long-term care homes within the context of the pandemic. The team includes Amy Hsu, Frank Knoefel, Sophie Orosz, Heidi Sveistrup, and Bruce Wallace.

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COVID-19 – Design of Long-Term Care Homes (LTC) – Learning for the Future

The appropriate design of long-term care (LTC) homes is crucial in balancing infection prevention and control (IPAC) with residents’ quality of life and care, particularly during pandemic conditions such as COVID-19. While hospital IPAC protocols are relatively well-established, LTC protocols are not well developed and may not “fit,” and may even clash, with the unique characteristics of LTC. To address this, and support the redevelopment of Canada’s aging LTC infrastructure, we will develop short-term and long-term design studies focused on IPAC in LTC to explore front-line cognitive aids that can be readily deployed to support healthcare workers, as well as concepts to support future new builds and redevelopments of LTC homes. Such studies will be instrumental in helping us break ground in understanding the impact of COVID-19 in LTC homes and will also help provide impetus to build a dedicated program at �Ӱ�ԭ�� focused on design and engineering for LTC.

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Congrats to the Multi-Discipline team from �Ӱ�ԭ�� and �����ܲ�è����:
Chantal Trudel (PI)
Susan Braedley
Dennis Kao
Bruce Wallace
Amy Hsu (�����ܲ�è����)
Frank Knoefel (�����ܲ�è����)
Zsofia Orosz (�����ܲ�è����)
Heidi Sveistrup (�����ܲ�è����)

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