Main description:

This book gathers extended contributions to the workshop on Long-Term Digital Care, LTC-2021, organized by the Universita Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM), Ancona, Italy, and the Hochschule Konstanz (HTWG), Germany, in November 2021, and funded by the DAAD Joint Mobility Program. It covers innovative, practice-oriented approaches that are expected to foster digital health care, with a special focus on improving internationalization and accessibility. The book, which bridges between technological and social disciplines, reports on selected studies with the main goals of: establishing a comparison of Long-Term Digital Care approaches, with focus on exchange and networking processes; defining practical roadmaps for digital social innovation; establishing concepts and methods for process evaluation and sustainability. It offers a timely snapshot on technologies for patient monitoring and assistant systems, medical data analysis and image processing, digital platforms and advanced diagnostics techniques, and discusses important concepts relating to traceable process evaluation, networking and accessibility. It aims at informing, yet it is also intended to inspire and foster a stronger collaboration across disciplines, countries, as well as academic and professional institutions.

Contents:

Measurement procedure for daily motion and sleep classification in aging people using smartwatch data.- Democratizing Digital Health Algorithms: RESTful machine learning web services.- Leveraging from the SatNav E@syCare experience in COVID-19 pandemic towards an extensive use of telemedicine in chronic patients long-term care model.- Some institutional and cultural challenges for social services in a post-pandemic era.- Heart and breathing rate measurement using low intrusive monitoring systems.- State of the art of wearable sensors for healthcare.- Electronic assistance systems in times of demographic change.