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The nursing care staff shortage is a worldwide phenomenon. The reasons for this are multiple. The older people population is the faster growing population in the western countries and their demand for accommodate nursing is also increasing day-in day-out. Though, at the same time the nursing profession is becoming less attractive for many reasons e.g. high burden on the caregivers, poor salary, poor quality of life, etc. All these ingredients lead to a severe nursing crisis worldwide.
This study aims at seeking alternative technology-supported solutions since all solutions in place, particularly in Germany, fail to stem the crisis.
The study evidence supports our theory that implementing smart home technology in the home care will increase family involvement in older people care at and thus decrease the burden on the inpatient-care-system. Consequently, this will mitigate the nursing shortage crisis.
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Edoh, T., Singh, M. (2021). Sustainably Stemming the Nursing Care Crisis in Germany. In: Singh, M., Kang, DK., Lee, JH., Tiwary, U.S., Singh, D., Chung, WY. (eds) Intelligent Human Computer Interaction. IHCI 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12616. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68452-5_20
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