1.3 Structure of the chapter

The remainder of the chapter presents in Section 2 some backgrounds and definitions. The research methodology, consisting of a literature review, research data, and system design, is presented in Section 3. Research findings and discussion are presented in Section 4. Section 5 handles a daily personal assistance system, which is designed and implemented to assist patients receiving nursing care at home and who is most of the time alone, and Section 6 concludes the study.

A nursing home will provide all the day-to-day care that you would expect from any care home, but the care is supervised by registered nurses who are on duty all day

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Care homes are staffed 24 hours a day and a proportion of the staff will be qualified

A nonspecific term in medicine; among medically qualified doctors in the UK, nursing care generally refers to procedures or medications which are solely or primarily aimed at providing comfort to a patient or alleviating that person's pain, symptoms or distress,

Based on the Segen's Medical Dictionary definition of nursing care, nursing care

The demographic structure of the developed countries (DC) or high-income countries (HIC) contains a large number of older (from 85+ years) and elderly (from 60+ years) people than young people (up to 59 years) and a very small number of teenagers (up to 15 years) in their population. The population of older adults is fastly growing in HIC [15], whereas the population in developing or lowand middle-income countries (LMIC) is remaining younger, although the number of young people is decreasing (see the example of Uganda—Figure 1). The median age in LMIC is around 15 years (see Figure 1), while the median age in the European Union (EU) is predicted to pass from 36.5 years in 1995 to 47.6 years in 2060 with an increasing tendency [16]. Thus, EU countries are facing an increasingly elderly population with all related needs like nursing and care homes, accommodated

The term "Elderly people" is defined as adults aged 60+ years, while people aged 65+ years are considered as an elder. Orimo, Hajime et al. had reviewed the definition of the term "elderly" in [17] and found out a correlation between elderly and

According to the conventional definition presented by the authors in contrary to

Conventionally, "elderly" has been defined as a chronological age of 65 years old or older, while those from 65 through 74 years old are referred to as "early elderly" and those

Though the World Health Organization (WHO) considers people aged 60+

And arguments follow such as why no one can exactly determine the age at

At the moment, there is no United Nations standard numerical criterion, but the UN

can be assimilated to palliative as well as elderly care. Most elderly people are requesting nursing care due to health conditions such as cognitive impairments that include dementia, Parkinson, blindness, etc. [13, 14]. Though their chance of being admitted to a nursing home is low, modern technology, as well as methodology such as remote care, can assist to provide them with the needed nursing care at their

care assistants with NVQs (National Vocational Qualifications) at Level 2 or 3.

Segen's Medical Dictionary defines nursing care as

residence place. The question raised is how will this work?

the request or need of medium to severe nursing care.

agreed cutoff is 60+ years to refer to the older population [18].

the definition above, the elderly is from 65+ years.

and includes the offer of oral nutrition and hydration

2.2 Elderly and age-related impairments

elderly healthcare services, etc.

over 75 years old as "late elderly." [17].

which one has to be considered as elderly.

years as elderly.

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and all night. while

2.1.2 What is nursing care?

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