College of Medicine & Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
Caring Futures Institute, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
Disabil Rehabil Assist Technol. 2024 May;19(4):1446-1453. doi: 10.1080/17483107.2023.2196308. Epub 2023 Apr 3.
People with disability often require long-term care. Long-term care is changing with the availability and advances in cost and function of technologies, such as home automation. Home automation has the potential to reduce paid carer hours and can potentially offer many benefits to people with a disability. The aim of this scoping review is to identify the health, social and economic outcomes experienced by people living with a disability who use home automation.
Two electronic databases were searched by title and abstract to identify international literature that describes home automation experiences from the perspectives of people with disability. A thematic approach was taken to synthesise the data to identify the key outcomes from home automation.
The review identified 11 studies reporting home automation outcomes for people living with a disability. Seven outcomes were associated with home automation: independence, autonomy, participation in daily activities, social and community connectedness, safety, mental health, and paid care and informal care.
Advances in technology and changes in funding to support people living with a disability have made access to home automation more readily available. Overall, the study findings showed that there is a range of potential benefits of home automation experienced by individuals living with a disability.
残疾人通常需要长期护理。随着自动化技术的可用性、成本和功能的提高，长期护理正在发生变化。家庭自动化有减少付费护理人员工作时间的潜力，并有可能为残疾人带来许多好处。本范围综述旨在确定使用家庭自动化的残疾人所经历的健康、社会和经济结果。
通过标题和摘要搜索了两个电子数据库，以确定描述残疾人家庭自动化体验的国际文献。采用主题方法对数据进行综合，以确定家庭自动化的主要结果。
综述确定了 11 项关于残疾人家庭自动化结果的研究。有七个与家庭自动化相关的结果：独立、自主、参与日常活动、社会和社区联系、安全、心理健康以及有偿护理和非正式护理。
技术的进步和为支持残疾人而提供的资金的变化使得家庭自动化更容易获得。总的来说，研究结果表明，残疾人使用家庭自动化可以获得一系列潜在的好处。
