+1 (629)348-3199Facilitating and evaluating the impact of technology-enabled specialist diabetes care delivery to care homes
3rd International Conference on Diabetes and Metabolism
November 29-30, 2019 | Frankfurt, Germany
Rebecca Mathews
University of the Highlands and Islands, UK
Scientific Tracks Abstracts : J Diabetol
Abstract:
Diabetes is increasing in prevalence and complexity in the
care home setting, affecting up to 27% of care home
residents in the United Kingdom. Health outcomes for these
residents are impacted by management of the disease,
healthcare professionals’ decision-making skills within the
care home setting, and, access to specialist services.
This project focuses on the use of technology having the
potential to recognise opportunities for early intervention
enabling efficient responsive care, taking a fundamental role in
linking the care home community to wider specialist services
and multi-disciplinary teams for support. By triangulating the
perspectives of the care home community, it is anticipated
that this project will represent an up to date, evidencedbased
overview of the potential for using technology within
the care home setting for diabetes management, education
and training, as well as stimulate research in this area.
Five studies study have been completed with each study
informing the next, commencing with a Systematic Review of
the literature to give a wider understanding of technologies
already being used, followed by questionnaires to 71 care
homes within the Highlands and Islands as part of a service
evaluation, a focus group with the Community Diabetes
Specialist Nurses to gain expert opinion, and, 28 one-to-one
interviews with care home staff across the Highlands and
Islands to understand their perspectives. These studies lead
to the final study of facilitating and evaluating an intervention
in practice with care home staff led by a Community Diabetes
Specialist Nurse and Specialist Dietician.
Biography:
Rebecca has completed 3 years of her PhD and is currently concluding the last 6 months at the University of the Highlands and Islands in Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom. “Diabetes, Care Homes and the Influence of Technology on Practice and Care Delivery in Care Homes: Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis” was published in JMIR in April 2019. Rebecca has been a student with the University of the Highlands and Islands since 2008 when training to become a Registered Adult Nurse, continuing to complete a 2 year Masters Degree in Care of the Older Person. She then spent 2 years in practice working as a healthcare professional within the public and private sectors of acute, community and care home settings.
E-mail: rebecca.mathews@uhi.ac.uk
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