COVID (Jan 2023)

Using Smart Devices for Monitoring Elderly Patients in Rural Areas of Calabria after COVID-19 Vaccination: Experiences within the SI4CARE Project

  • Alessandro Gallo,
  • Salvatore Fregola,
  • Margherita Menon,
  • Filomena Talarico,
  • Stella Fragkiadaki,
  • Dionysia Kontaxopolou,
  • Katarina Vukojevic,
  • Danira Matijaca,
  • Miodrag Miljkovic,
  • Srdjan Kožetinac,
  • Alessio Merola,
  • Vlado Dimovski,
  • Anamarija Kejar,
  • Ivan Radevic,
  • Danica Stevovic,
  • Vlatka Martinovic,
  • Katjia Matesan,
  • Roberta Matkovic,
  • Guido Piccoli,
  • Francesco Esposito,
  • Nicola Mayera,
  • Elisabetta Pedace,
  • Darja Semrov,
  • Pietro Hiram Guzzi,
  • the SI4CARE Partners Members

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/covid3020007
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 2
pp. 124 – 130

Abstract

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The SI4CARE project is a transnational project which aims to develop both strategy and action plans to improve health and social care in the Adriatic–Ionian region. Starting from a survey of the status quo, each partner has developed some pilots to support the development and monitoring of the policy actions. In particular, partner number three, the Municipality of Miglierina, designed and developed a pilot related to the use of wearable devices for monitoring elderly patients in rural areas. With the collaboration of the complex unity of primary care (UCCP) of the Reventino area, the pilot is based on the use of smart wearable devices to monitor some parameters of older adults after their vaccinations for flu and covid. This paper focused on the design and implementation of the system. It describes its application in the Municipality of Miglierina. Presentation of the results and a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses will be presented, in detail, in future work. Finally, the possibility of extending the experiment to other Adriatic–Ionian regions is addressed.

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