Considering the Use of a Personal Emergency Response System: An Experience of Frail, Older Women

2002 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 192-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eileen J. Porter ◽  
Lawrence H. Ganong
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Care Experience ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Emergency Response System ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Response Systems ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Personal Emergency Response Systems ◽  
Emergency Response Systems

The individual considerations of frail women who are elderly as to the use of personal emergency response systems (PERS) are discussed within this article, and they derived from a larger longitudinal study that explores the home care experience of older widows. Participants were 11 frail women (aged 81-94) who perceived a risk of “falling and not being found” and did not have a PERS. A descriptive phenomenological method was used to analyze PERS-related data obtained during interviews with each woman in her home. With regard to considering the use of a PERS, experiences were structured variously by “getting by fine without it,” “waiting to get it until I really need it,” “convincing myself that I might get it later,” and “borrowing no more trouble than I already have.” Consistent interventions by home care professionals may perhaps be needed to increase PERS utilization rates. To develop effective interventions, further descriptive research is deemed necessary to explore draw-backs and barriers to PERS use by older frail women.

A Model for Emergency Response Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 383-391
Author(s):  
Murray E. Jennex
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Cyber Terrorism ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Emergency Response System ◽  
Critical Data ◽  
Response System ◽  
Response Systems ◽  
Cyber War ◽  
Emergency Response Systems

Cyber war and cyber terrorism is real and is being waged. Cyber terrorists and cyber warriors are attacking systems and succeeding in their attacks. This requires management to prepare for the worst case, the loss and destruction of critical data and systems. This chapter helps management prepare for this worst case by discussing how to design and build emergency response systems. These systems are used to respond to worst case attacks. Additionally, these systems are useful for responding to other disasters that can cause the loss of systems and data. This chapter presents research into emergency response systems and concludes with a model of what an emergency response system should consist of.

Spanish Civil Protection System as a Part of European Union Emergency Response

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-177
Author(s):  
Tomasz Zwęgliński ◽  
Manuel Rodriquez Cordero
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Civil Protection ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Normative Documents ◽  
Emergency Response System ◽  
Regional Systems ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Response Systems ◽  
Emergency Response Systems

European Union is a union of sovereign democratic countries which commonly agreed to integrate and, depending on the area, cooperate towards achieving better quality of life of European citizens. In the case of safety and security, since it is still national domain mainly, rather cooperation than integration aspect is prevailing. Since threats do not respect administrative borders it is the most important to do as much as possible for the cooperation improvement which, in fundamentals, could be done by knowing and understanding each other’s national civil protection and emergency response systems. Things are getting even more complicated if the object of scientific inquires in this respect is a country which is actually a federation of autonomous states as in the case of Spain or Germany. Then the national system as a matter of fact is being composed of a few or even several autonomous regional systems which are constituted and regulated on the regional level of the federation. This type of situation results from the historical, political, geographical backgrounds and due to many more reasons, however, it is always good to put a question how such systems operate in case of emergency? In order to present a synthetic description of the Spanish civil protection and emergency response system scientific methods of cognition such as the critical analysis of legal acts and normative documents as well as synthesis were used in the research. The study concluded with the future challenges for the system which should be undertaken to improve its efficiency.

Personal Emergency Response Systems

1992 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard F. Edlich ◽  
Joan L. Redd ◽  
Robert D. Zura ◽  
Anne E. Tanner ◽  
Eric E. Walk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Response Systems ◽  
Personal Emergency Response Systems ◽  
Emergency Response Systems

scholarly journals MOBILE SMART EMERGENCY RESPONSE SYSTEM FOR JEDDAH CITY

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 6968-6976
Author(s):  
Sahar Ahmed Al-Dhaheri ◽  
Amal Alhassan ◽  
Weam Alazahrani ◽  
Khadijah Alfadli ◽  
Dr.Maram Meccawy
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
System Implementation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Jeddah City ◽  
Emergency Response System ◽  
Response System ◽  
Response Systems ◽  
The Government ◽  
Emergency Response Systems

Responding to disasters and crises is a crucial role for the government to ensure the public safety of society. Responding lies in the counter of crimes of civil or disorders, providing the urgent medical care to injured or sick people, and providing relief of natural and manmade disasters. Despite ongoing attempts to improve emergency response systems in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, it still suffers from vulnerability.  With the current development of the technology and internet of things (IoT), it became necessary to apply these techniques for improving emergency response systems in Jeddah. In this paper, we present Jeddah Smart Emergency Response System (JSERS) as a solution to improve the emergency response system in Jeddah using smart city technologiesز First, we discussed the problems related to the response to accidents and disasters and their history in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, especially Jeddah. Consequently, we described the proposed solution, followed by the architecture of the system. Following by the opportunities and the challenges of system implementation are discussed. Finally, a list of suggestions that supports this system implementation and deployment is reported.

scholarly journals Falls as outcome in clinical trials

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg Goldhahn ◽  
Niklas König
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Fall Detection ◽  
Detection Technology ◽  
Measurement Tools ◽  
Response Systems ◽  
Personal Emergency Response Systems ◽  
Emergency Response Systems ◽  
Relevant Outcome ◽  
Detection Technologies

Falls have significant impact on affected individuals. They may lead to injuries including fractures, hospitalization, decrase in mobility, and loss of independence. Therefore, falls constitute a relevant outcome parameter in clinical trials. However, especially elderly and frail patients may forget to report or neglect falls. The use of fall-detection technology in clinical trials may overcome this challenges. However, commercially-available fall-detection technologies are designed as personal emergency response systems rather than as measurement tools to assess the effects of an intervention. Hence, before adopting a commercially-availablefall-detection technology in a clinical trial one has to assess its suitability for such application.

Satisfaction and use of personal emergency response systems

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 219-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Heinbüchner ◽  
M. Hautzinger ◽  
C. Becker ◽  
K. Pfeiffer
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Response Systems ◽  
Personal Emergency Response Systems ◽  
Emergency Response Systems
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