![]() ![]() For example, when the members of his group looked at ways to support informal hospice caregivers (e.g., family members, friends, neighbors), they used video conferencing technology to solve the caregivers' problems. Technology interventions do not always have to be complex and sophisticated, Demiris said. Furthermore, research projects rarely enable the tailoring of technologies on the basis of the situation in the home or the needs of the individual patient, because everyone in the study needs to receive the same intervention. The pace of technological advance is faster than traditional research grant cycles, so that by the time a study has been planned and funding has been acquired, the technology to be studied may be outdated. ![]() Although both the amount and kind of evidence on home health care technologies are increasing-from evidence from pilot studies to evidence from some longitudinal research and randomized controlled trials-“it is still not really clear what seems to work and what doesn't work,” Demiris said, especially because the findings are sometimes contradictory. ![]()
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