Current and Future Growing demand of Digital Health Technologies to care Dementia and Elderly during Pandemic

Authors

  • Krishna Prasad Pathak Nepal Open University, Nepal. Alzheimer Related Dementia Society Nepal, Department of Preventive Medicine, EPM / UNIFESP
  • Luiz Robberto Ramos Department of Preventive Medicine, EPM / UNIFESP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37107/jhas.433

Keywords:

COVID-19, Dementia, Digital health, Older adults, Pandemic

Abstract

COVID-19 has created huge challenges for health systems worldwide for health career sources and health care providers in health institutions. An immense range of digital health technologies can be considerable health strategies in recent years. We searched electronically published relevant articles in English language using these “COVID-19”, “coronavirus”, “technologies”, “severe acute respiratory syndrome”, “dementia”, “digital-health”, and “older adult care”. It helps to collect the digital information, collect data, transfer, store, frontline protection, to reduce the risk of rapid contamination, analysis and proper monitor information system, holistic control, manage, care and prevention, decrease the patients overload to the health care professionals’ in the institutions, prevent from contamination for health care providers, general peoples and patients. Still, lacking in many countries as alternative ways to adapt for digital health technologies in health care practices. Thus, it is necessary to adapt digital health technologies although there are few studies on the use of digital health technologies focusing on COVID-19. It is not only for COVID-19 issues but also should be implement to make our daily life easiest than before to fight with communicable disease.

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Published

2023-08-23

How to Cite

Prasad Pathak, K., & Robberto Ramos, L. (2023). Current and Future Growing demand of Digital Health Technologies to care Dementia and Elderly during Pandemic. Journal of Health and Allied Sciences, 12(2), 28–31. https://doi.org/10.37107/jhas.433

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