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- Multidisciplinary character of subject and authors (engineering and health care) unseen in related books/publications
- First handbook of its kind related to care-related needs following from global demographic changes (ageing, chronic disease): other publications focus on technology only
- Includes case reports of actual projects (success factors and learning points)
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (50 entries)
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Front Matter
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The Use of Technology in Health Care and Social Innovation. Challenges and Opportunities
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Front Matter
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Fontys EGT – Centre for Healthcare and Technology, Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Joost van Hoof
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School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
George Demiris
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Institute of allied health professions, Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Eveline J.M. Wouters
About the editors
Joost van Hoof serves as the head of the Fontys Centre for Health Care & Technology, which is a cooperation between 5 Institutes of Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Eindhoven and Venlo, The Netherlands. Together with Dr. Eveline Wouters, he was a co-editor of a Dutch handbook on smart living and health. Dr. van Hoof has an engineering background in building physics and services. Dr. van Hoof also works with ISSO, the Dutch Building Services Research Institute in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He serves as board member of TVVL, the Dutch Association for Building Services Engineers TVVL (Dutch Technical Association for Building Services) and the Herman Bouma Fund for Gerontechnology Foundation. For his work, Dr van Hoof won various (inter)national awards, including the REHVA Young Scientist Award 2011 by the Federation of European Heating and Air-Conditioning Associations, and the 2010 BJ Max Prize. He is a board member of various ISI journals on building, technology and health care.
George Demiris is the Alumni Endowed Professor in Nursing at the School of Nursing and Biomedical and Health Informatics, at the School of Medicine, University of Washington. He is the Graduate Program Director of Biomedical and Health Informatics in the School of Medicine and the Director of the Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technologies Program at the School of Nursing. His research interests include the design and evaluation of home based technologies for older adults and patients with chronic conditions and disabilities, smart homes and ambient assisted living applications and the use of tele health in home care and hospice.
Eveline Wouters, PhD, MD, MSc, is medical doctor and professor of Health Innovations and Technology with the Institute of Allied Health Professions of Fontys University of Applied Sciences. The research focus is on technology development, acceptance and implementation of technology in health care, from the point of view of patients, family and health care professionals. In this, she works together with technological faculties. Together with Dr. Joost van Hoof, she was a co-editor of a Dutch handbook on smart living and health. Dr. Wouters has written several other textbooks, book chapters and many peer-reviewed articles on a diversity of health related subjects.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Smart Homes, Health Care and Well-Being
Editors: Joost van Hoof, George Demiris, Eveline J.M. Wouters
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01583-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Reference Module Computer Science and Engineering
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-01582-8Published: 05 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-01583-5Published: 24 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 664
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 149 illustrations in colour
Topics: Robotics and Automation, Building Types and Functions, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Aging, Quality of Life Research