Download 20% Average aged care resident has 9 Medications

The Future of Technology in
Community and Aged Care
Michael Boyce
Community & Aged Care Sector
Key Trends & Issues
Consumer Empowerment
Consumer directed care in
aged & disabilities sectors
Competition means more
focus on cost and quality
AGEING
Population
Over 85s growing from
420k to 1.2M by 2020
Links between Health & Aged
Home Care packages
Care Systems
projected to increase
from 60k in 2017 to 20% Elderly patients re-admitted
to hospital within a month!
over
Average aged care resident
100k
by 2022 has 9
Medications
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Aged Care a linked continuum
Source: Aged Care Capability Report. Austrade. August 2013.
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Better Care in the Home
Enabling People to Stay at Home for Longer
Ontario Telemedicine Network results from home health monitoring,
combined with remote care coordination
60%
“
A study of 813 people with
Congestive Heart Failure and
Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease found that
for every $1 invested in
telemedicine, $5 in hospital
costs were avoided
Reduction in
hospitalisations
70% reduction
in Emergency
Department visits
”
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Improving Community Care efficiency through
better systems
Route
Optimisation
Efficient Rostering
of Staff
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Better links between health and aged care:
Improved Medication Management
From handwritten medication
charts….
…. To a single shared medication
record
GP updates
e-medication chart
GP
Facility administers
based on
e-medication chart
Aged care facility
Single medication
chart
Pharmacy dispenses
from e-medication
chart
Pharmacy
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Better links between Health and Aged Care:
Telehealth in Residential Aged Care
Aged care residents see GPs an average of 14
times a year; this is both inconvenient for
the GP and disruptive for the patient
US telehealth company Teladoc does 11,600
telehealth medical consultations per month
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