Shelby Hall Graduate Research Forum Posters
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Many seniors prefer to live at home which necessitates research into the application of technologies to provide a safer environment with less caregiver resources. However, the application of home health care (HHC) monitoring for seniors is still in an evolutionary stage. Present HHC systems are produced by private companies with general regulatory guidelines lacking specific care of the elderly. As such, each company that produces such a system claims to have better safety, privacy, and security that their competitors. A pressing issues is devising and applying a general framework for the application of technologies that delivers safety while preserving privacy. Previous research concerning the privacy of such systems focused on the acceptance by seniors for these products with much emphasis on information privacy and security and little emphasis on the physical privacy aspect. This research focuses on the physical privacy aspect of HHC monitoring in determining if physical privacy represents an acceptance hurdle, with a focus on seniors with osteoporosis. Additionally, the safety requirements will be determined by surveying elderly care providers. Furthermore, unlike most studies into home health care which gives users a binary choice, a sample of the senior population will be educated on and questioned on their attitudes on individual components of HHC monitoring using a range scale. The resultant analysis will extract a combination of components that maximizes the mixture safety and physical privacy accepted by seniors. Finally, a HHC monitoring framework for seniors with osteoporosis will be developed based upon the results.
Publication Date
3-2025
Department
Information Systems & Technology
City
Mobile
Disciplines
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Geriatrics | Health Information Technology | Information Security | Other Computer Sciences | Other Medical Specialties | Quality Improvement | Systems Architecture
Recommended Citation
Russel, Sam; Benton, Ryan; Campbell, Amy; and Sittig, Scott, "Preserving Privacy in Senior Care at Home Monitoring Systems" (2025). Shelby Hall Graduate Research Forum Posters. 27.
https://jagworks.southalabama.edu/southalabama-shgrf-posters/27
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