Health Care Comes Home

By: The National Academy of Sciences

Synopsis: The National Research Council's Committee on the Role of Human Factors in Home Health Care was formed to investigate the role of human factors in home health care and the range of issues resulting from the increased use of medical devices, technologies, and practices in the home. It conducted a workshop on the topic held in October 2009 in Washington, DC, and reports on its conclusions and recommendations here. The report details the relevant people, tasks, technologies, and environments to highlight the most prevalent and serious threats to safety, quality of care, and care recipient and provider well-being. It documents the characteristics of people who give and receive care; human factors tools and methods and their application; tasks and their demands and analysis; technologies used; care factors in physical, social/cultural, community, and policy environments; and 11 recommendations on technologies, residential environments, research and development needs, and other areas, including regulation, adverse event reporting, safety and modification of housing, accessibility and universal design, teamwork and coordination, and assessment. There is no index. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)

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