Abstract
The Internet of Health Things (technologies for exchanging data) is crucial in helping promote health and wellbeing. Family caregivers of people with Alzheimer's can significantly benefit from the Internet of Health Things by enabling caregivers to participate in programs from home to help manage their stress and distress in their caregiver role. This paper reports the results of a techno-economic analysis and a life cycle assessment comparing a video-communication delivered intervention designed to decrease the stress and distress of caregivers of people with Alzheimer's and related dementias to a hypothetical in-person delivery of the same intervention. Results indicated that the virtual intervention, compared to the hypothetical in-person intervention, was associated with lower participant costs yet, potentially more expensive from an organizational/provider perspective. Environmentally, the virtual intervention had lower carbon emissions than the hypothetical in-person delivery of the intervention. Furthermore, video-communication delivery of the intervention has the potential to reduce some of the hassles of looking for respite to attend caregiving interventions and allow caregivers to join from their preferred location across the country.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 138206 |
Journal | Journal of Cleaner Production |
Volume | 418 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 15 2023 |
Keywords
- Alzheimer's disease
- Carbon footprint
- Caregivers
- Dementia
- Internet of things (IoT)
- Techno-economic analysis (TEA)
- Virtual reality
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
- General Environmental Science
- Strategy and Management
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
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