Diane Chau, MD, is the PI of a [...]m grant through the US Department of Health & Human Services to change clinical training environments for health care professionals from all disciplines through telehealth and technology to create a better skilled health care workforce. She is Associate Professor (past Program Director of Geriatric Medicine training program) at UC San Diego. A US News & World Report Top Physician, she completed her geriatric fellowship at UC San Diego School of Medicine in 2002 with a focus on education/curriculum design. During her career she has won over [...] million in peer-reviewed grant funding involving simulation training. She has been a published educator, mentor, educational program developer since 2002 with numerous historic and active grant-funding successes. She has a history of work in the area of simulation team training/telemedicine, dynamic team leadership, the successful completion of previous multimillion dollar projects related to education, and (excluding abstracts) has authored over 20 papers and book chapters in her field. She is also the Medical Director of GeriJoy, a tele-monitoring device company for seniors.

Contents

Contributors

Preface

I. FOUNDATION

1. Current Major Challenges in Aging and Targets for Technology

Ender Ricart, Thomas F. Osborne, Leonid A. Gavrilov, and Gavin W. Hougham

2. Promoting Technology Adoption and Engagement in Aging

Ashley Reynolds and Thomas F. Osborne

II. LOCATIONS OF CARE

3. Transitions of Care and Technology Integration

Aroop K. Pal, Diane Chau, and Jessica L. Kalender-Rich

4. Home Telehealth

Thomas F. Osborne, John Russo, Jr., Bryan T. Arkwright, and Joel J. Reich

5. Telemedicine and Its Effects on Elder Care in Rural Areas

Roxana Aminbakhsh

III. TARGET CONDITIONS

6. Technology Design for Frailty

Adriana J. Salas, Ashley Reynolds, and Colin M. Thomas

7. Technology and Cognitive Impairment

Ian C. Neel, Roxana Aminbakhsh, Lauren Cook, and T. J. McCallum

8. Advances in Medication Adherence Technology in the Elderly Population

Kevin M. Krcmarik

9. Technological Advancements in Pain Management in the Elderly Population

Muhammad A. Waqar, Kelly Conright, Dawn R. Currie, and Jessica C. Cate

IV. SPECIFIC TOOLS

10. Personalized Medicine and Wearable Devices

Andrew Michael and Thomas F. Osborne

11. Social Robots and Other Relational Agents to Improve Patient Care

Victor H. S. Wang and Thomas F. Osborne

12. Artificial Intelligence and Its Potential to Improve the Health of Older Adults

Gavin W. Hougham, Amir M. Rahimi, Bruce A. McClelland, Nancy J. McMillan, Michael A. Schwemmer, David A. Friedenberg, Jeremy Bellay, Andrew J. Landgraf, and Thomas F. Osborne

13. Advances in Health Education Technology

Ashley Reynolds, Thomas F. Osborne, John Waggoner, Renee Melton, Ramin Motarjemi, Jürgen P. Schulze, and Diane Chau

Index