Reichold M, Selau M, Grässel E, Kolominsky-Rabas P, Prokosch HU (2021)
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2021
Publisher: IOS Press BV
Book Volume: 279
Pages Range: 1-9
Conference Proceedings Title: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Event location: Virtual, Online, AUT
ISBN: 9781643681801
DOI: 10.3233/SHTI210081
The benefits of eHealth interventions for people with dementia and their informal caregivers have been demonstrated in several studies. In times of contact restrictions, digital solutions have become increasingly important, especially for people with dementia and their mostly elderly caregiving relatives, which are at increased risk of severe illness from COVID-19. As in many other health areas, there is a lack of digital interventions in the dementia landscape that are successfully implemented (i.e., put into practice), especially digital interventions that are scientifically evaluated. Evaluated and proven effective digital interventions exist, but these often do not find their way from research into practice and stay on low-level implementation readiness. Within the project digiDEM Bayern, a digital platform with digital services and interventions for people affected by dementia (people with dementia, caregivers, volunteers and interested citizens) is established. As one digital intervention for informal caregivers, the Angehörigenampel (caregivers' traffic-light) was developed, which is able to assess the physical and psychological burden of caregivers. This can help to counteract the health effects of caregiving burden early on before it is too late. The development of the digital intervention as a WordPress-plugin was kept generic so that it can easily be adapted to other languages on further websites. The intervention as a plugin' approach demonstrates an easy and flexible way of deploying eHealth interventions to other service providers, especially from other countries. The implementation barriers for other service providers are low enough for them to be able to easily integrate the eHealth intervention on their website, enabling more caregivers to benefit from the disseminated eHealth intervention.
APA:
Reichold, M., Selau, M., Grässel, E., Kolominsky-Rabas, P., & Prokosch, H.-U. (2021). EHealth Interventions for Dementia Using WordPress Plugins as a Flexible Dissemination for Dementia Service Providers. In Dieter Hayn, Gunter Schreier, Martin Baumgartner (Eds.), Studies in Health Technology and Informatics (pp. 1-9). Virtual, Online, AUT: IOS Press BV.
MLA:
Reichold, Michael, et al. "EHealth Interventions for Dementia Using WordPress Plugins as a Flexible Dissemination for Dementia Service Providers." Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference on Health Informatics meets Digital Health, dHealth 2021, Virtual, Online, AUT Ed. Dieter Hayn, Gunter Schreier, Martin Baumgartner, IOS Press BV, 2021. 1-9.
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