PROCEEDINGS IPMU '08
Non-classical logic for Elderly Care Management
Patrik Eklund
Health decline among elderly is diverse
and we indeed often speak of
multiple diseases e.g. involving psychiatric
and cardiac diseases. This
disease orientation with a treatment
add-on is, however, only one scenario
in which care of elderly can
be accurately and completely described.
In the case of elderly it
is important to place ability and
its measurement in primary focus
as measurable reductions in abilities
trigger all processes involving solicitation
and caring together with clinical
estimation. Interventions are always
joint concerns and also involve
teamwork building upon a wide
range of professional skills. Workflow
modelling is important and, in
particular, decision making within
these processes along which patient
abilities are declining. Decision support
is always based on rules and
in the end on underlying logic. We
will show how coordination of professional
skills and capacities require
consideration of different logic platforms
which need to be interrelated.
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