This document discusses platforms and standards for smart elderly care at home. It outlines the current status of transitional care, home care, and long-term home care services. It advocates for ageing in place through empowering technologies like telemonitoring and telepresence. It proposes a physical platform for testing smart home care solutions that is aligned with Singapore's Smart Nation initiatives and considers incubation, testing, certification, safety, security, reliability, and interoperability standards. An industry effort is needed to establish an ecosystem of interoperable home health systems to empower patients and elders.

1. Platform & Standards of Smart
Elderly Care At Home
Dr Tan Jit Seng
Senior Homecare Physician
Lotus Eldercare Health Services

2. Manyplatformsforon
cloudelectronic
medicalrecords;tele
monitoringdevices,
telepresenceinthe
market
Current Status

3. TransitionalCare
andHomeCare
Transiting from hospital
wards to home settings -
home visits made by
healthcare professionals after
the patient discharged from
the acute hospital or
community hospital setting
Usually reserved for the
sicker and ADL dependent
patients, or those with
recurrent admission from
flares of their chronic
diseases
Long Term Home Care
Services - involving
healthcare professionals e.g.
doctors, nurses, therapists,
social services visiting
patients at home for all kinds
of health related services.
Usually reserved for chronic
dependent sick patients or
medical palliative care
patients.

4. Ageing-in-
Place
 Ageing in place means ageing in your favorite place,
perhaps your own home for 80 years, perhaps a fun filled
activity filled retirement village, perhaps a place back to
the roots from the village you came originally from –
Possible?
 Definitely NOT in a ward with another 6 to 8 ward mates
in nursing home uniforms having no choices on your
meals, bathing timings or privacy.

5. Empowering
Technologies

6. Tele– Possibilities

7. Tele-
Possibilities

8. How andwhoto integrate– Itiseasy?

9. PhysicalPlatform
withexampleof
suchintegration
hasbeendone
 http://www.straitstimes.co
m/singapore/health/centre-
launched-to-test-smart-
solutions-for-home-care-for-
the-elderly

10. Centertakes
into
consideration
Incubation , Testing & Certification

11. Alignedwiththe
SmartNation
initiatives

12. International
Certification Body
forequipment /
devices,processes
etc.
Creating a sandbox to develop standards
Offering a platform for innovation (test-bedding)
Demonstrate a scalable end-to-end Smart Elderly Care
solution in terms of:
Safety Security Reliability Interoperability

13. Standards:
Necessary….
Notsufficient

14. IndustryEffort
Needed
 Must be a Community driven initiative in Singapore
with the aim to mobilizes a coalition of stakeholders to
realize the full potential of Home care connected health
and wellness in Singapore.
 To establish an eco-system of interoperable personal
and home health systems that empower patients and
elderlies to better manage their health and wellness

15. ThankYou!
 Contact – drtanjitseng@lotuseldercare.com.sg
 Contact – steven.yeo@talentgridventures.com