Head-mounted Activity Monitoring(HAM)System Fast Track

头戴式活动监测（HAM）系统快速通道

• 批准号: 9077885
• 负责人: Mark A Fauci
• 金额: $ 84.62万
• 依托单位: GEN-9, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-01 至 2017-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9077885
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The population of the United States, as in most developed nations, is aging and is doing so at an increasing rate. This change in demographics is having a dramatic effect on the nation's healthcare delivery system and the related public costs. The Congressional Budget Office predicts that the cost of long-term care for the elderly will reach $207 billion in 2020 and $346 billion in 2040. By 2030, spending for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will amount to almost 60% of the federal budget. The strong predilection of most of the elderly, and their families, is to prefer long-term care delivery in the home rather than in the institutionalized setting. This has resulted in a massive shift of elderly care costs t unpaid family caregivers, and this cost is not reflected in the budget numbers provided above. However, the continuation of this shifting of elderly care costs to family members is not sustainable due to the decrease in birth rate and the increasing number of adults surviving to old age without living children. As a result there will be an increasingly urgent need for publicly funded support of elderly home-based care while, at the same time, an equally urgent need to control the spirally cost of this care. More efficient delivery of home-care services for the eldery can have a significant impact on controlling, or even reducing, the cost of long-term elderly care. However, in order to deliver this care cost-effectively, a technology-based infrastructure optimized for this purpose will be required. One means of achieving this goal is by developing innovative mobile technology solutions which can monitor and maintain the activity, health and safety, and thereby the independence, of the elderly within the home. Our working hypothesis in this proposal is that a properly designed, head-mounted, wearable-computing solution can bring unique and powerful capabilities to address the need for more effective and lower-cost elderly home monitoring. We propose to develop a highly compact, light-weight, innovative technology called the Head-mounted Activity Monitoring (HAM) System.

描述（由申请人提供）：与大多数发达国家一样，美国人口正在老龄化，而且老龄化速度还在加快。人口结构的变化对国家的医疗保健服务系统和相关公共成本产生了巨大影响。国会预算办公室预测，2020年老年人长期护理费用将达到2070亿美元，2040年将达到3460亿美元。到2030年，社会保障、医疗保险和医疗补助支出将占联邦预算的近60%。大多数老年人及其家人的强烈偏好是更喜欢在家中提供长期护理服务，而不是 比在制度化环境中。这导致老年人护理成本大量转移到无薪家庭护理人员身上，而这一成本并未反映在上面提供的预算数字中。然而，由于出生率下降以及越来越多的成年人在没有子女的情况下活到老年，这种将老年人护理费用转移给家庭成员的做法是不可持续的。因此，公开的需求将越来越迫切。 为老年人家庭护理提供资金支持，同时同样迫切需要控制这种护理的螺旋式上升的成本。更有效地为老年人提供家庭护理服务可以对控制甚至降低长期老年人护理成本产生重大影响。 然而，为了经济高效地提供这种护理，将需要为此目的优化的基于技术的基础设施。实现这一目标的一种方法是开发创新的移动技术解决方案，该解决方案可以监控和维护家中老年人的活动、健康和安全，从而保持其独立性。我们在该提案中的工作假设是，设计合理的头戴式可穿戴计算解决方案可以带来独特而强大的功能，以满足更有效和更低成本的老年人家庭监控的需求。我们建议开发一种高度紧凑、重量轻的创新技术，称为头戴式活动监测（HAM）系统。