@inproceedings{5a42eb02e038413dac91b4d9d302ceb9,
title = "Elderly and homecare tasks: A literature review on problems",
abstract = "Personalization of IT-based homecare services is one of the essential requirements for their successful introduction. A service tailoring process assist a person responsible for deciding on the care activities (the {\textquoteleft}care-giver{\textquoteright}) to create a personalized composite service for an elderly (the {\textquoteleft}care-receiver{\textquoteright}) based on the care-givers professional knowledge and with minimal assumptions on their technical knowledge and skills. The outcome of the service tailoring process is called a service plan, which represents a composite service tailored to the specific needs of a care-receiver. Designing such a service plan from scratch is a difficult and time consuming task. The use of patterns can simplify the process of creating a service plan. A service plan pattern, as a starting point for the tailoring process, is a treatment pattern which is an activity structure for handling a generic homecare task. To define the treatment patterns the understanding of problems related to such homecare tasks is necessary. This paper, by means of a literature survey, studies characteristics of common problems faced by elderly and current existing solutions for these problems. We believe that identifying such problems helps IT experts to develop a better understanding of requirements and to define correct and complete treatment patterns.",
keywords = "SCS-Services, IR-84254, METIS-296220, EWI-22889",
author = "A. Ashiful and {Zarifi Eslami}, Mohammed and Nicolaas Sikkel",
year = "2012",
month = jul,
language = "Undefined",
isbn = "978-972-8939-70-0",
publisher = "IADIS",
pages = "211--216",
editor = "M{\'a}rio Macedo",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 4th IADIS International Conference e-Health",
note = "null ; Conference date: 17-07-2012 Through 19-07-2012",
}