Transcript February 9, 2010 - Center for Technology and Aging

Aging Services Technologies:
Policy and Provider Landscape
David Lindeman, PhD
Assembly Committee on Aging
and Long-Term Care
Senate Subcommittee on Aging
and Long-Term Care
February 9, 2010
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Overview
Beneficial Technologies for Older Adults:
Drivers and Barriers
Examples of Successful Technologies
Emerging Trends in
Aging Services Technologies
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Barriers to Diffusion and Adoption of Technologies
Lack of alignment of reimbursement streams
Lack of integration and interoperability
Limited awareness of older consumers
Poor preparation and training
Privacy and security
Organizational culture of traditional healthcare
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Center for Technology and Aging
Funded by The SCAN Foundation and based at the Public Health Institute
Nation’s first center dedicated exclusively to advancing the use of
technologies that enhance home and community-based care for older adults
State and national resource center
Identify and evaluate best practices in the diffusion of beneficial
technologies
Develop supportive tools to help accelerate the adoption of beneficial
technologies
Provide grant funding in targeted areas of technologies
– $500,000 per grant cycle
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Beneficial Technologies for Older Adults
Medication Optimization
Remote Patient Monitoring
Assistive Technologies
Remote Training and Supervision
Cognitive Fitness and Assessment
Social Networking
See the Center for Technology and Aging’s
Briefing Paper for more information at:
www.techandaging.org/briefingpaper.pdf
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Medication Optimization
Technologies designed to help manage medication information,
dispensing, adherence, and monitoring.
Medication use is ubiquitous among older adults: 90% of older adults
take one or more prescription medications/week, 41% take five or
more medications/week, and 12% take ten or more medications/week.
The New England Healthcare Institute: $290 billion of healthcare
expenditures could be avoided if medication adherence were improved.
See the Center for Technology and Aging’s Position
Paper for more information at:
www.techandaging.org/MedOpPositionPaper.pdf
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Technologies to Improve Medication Utilization:
Models for Diffusion in California
Veterans Administration of Central CA
Remotely located internists and allied health professionals in five
central California rural and medically underserved counties
The Health Buddy® system as well as weight scale, blood
pressure monitor, assessment algorithms and clinician alerts
Medication adherence management (including self-management)
for home-based heart failure patients
Health Buddy
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Technologies to Improve Medication Utilization:
Models for Diffusion in California
Caring Choices - Chico, CA
Philips Medication Dispensing Service technology for medication
adherence management will be introduced to four home health
and senior living organizations in four new rural and urban areas
of CA
Connecticut Pharmacists Foundation - Long Beach, CA
Community health workers and remotely located pharmacists will
use videoconferencing, electronic health records, and spoken
format technology for medication therapy management of
Cambodian-American older adults
American Society of Consultant Pharmacists Found. - Irvine, CA
Pharmacists will use Monitor-Rx, a web-based patient medication
assessment tool, to optimize the medication regimens of older adults
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Center for Technology and Aging
www.techandaging.org
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