OLDER PEOPLE AND THE INNOVATIVE FORMS OF LIVING AND CARE
OLDER PEOPLE AND THE INNOVATIVE FORMS OF LIVING AND CARE

Summary/Abstract: The problem of the ageing population has become an important political topic as well as an increasingly greater challenge for health, social and housing care services in the developed countries. The ageing population is, however, creating strongly growing financial needs to provide suitable healthcare, social care and housing for the elderly. Innovative forms of living and care for the elderly are, therefore, the reaction of the western countries to the increasing number of the older people in the society. One of such innovative systems, which is based on the information and communication technologies, is called remote home care or "telecare". It represents an applied form of an intelligent environment, by which users’ home environments are arranged following the smart house concept, connected to a remote monitoring network, and through this to providers of care and other services. Although the governments try to implement such systems to reduce the costs, the findings of various authors suggest that elderly people have mostly negative attitudes towards such innovative form of living and care. But the research that was conducted in Slovenia has, surprisingly, shown the opposite. The article presents and discusses the results of this research.

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