Research Article
The Peer Support for Elderly Breast Cancer Patients’ Continuing Care at Home Through Smart Service System
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-99194-4_19, author={Bo Gao and Siying Chen}, title={The Peer Support for Elderly Breast Cancer Patients’ Continuing Care at Home Through Smart Service System}, proceedings={Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare. 15th EAI International Conference, Pervasive Health 2021, Virtual Event, December 6-8, 2021, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH}, year={2022}, month={3}, keywords={Breast cancer Continuing care Peer support UCD (user-center design) User experience}, doi={10.1007/978-3-030-99194-4_19} }- Bo Gao
Siying Chen
Year: 2022
The Peer Support for Elderly Breast Cancer Patients’ Continuing Care at Home Through Smart Service System
PERVASIVEHEALTH
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99194-4_19
Abstract
Breast cancer is the first most frequent cancer and cancer with the highest incidence and the most frequent cancer among women globally. Elderly female patients with breast cancer need peer support to maintain their physiological and psychological health. Strengthening peer support in the continuing care at home requires maintaining the continuation of information between home and hospital, strengthening the relationship between the stakeholders, helping elderly patients recover physically and mentally through enhancing the user experience. We present the progress and results from the research adopted a series of UCD (user-center design) methods since 2018. We did the co-creation workshops with four breast cancer hospitals, 68 breast cancer patients, and eight families to clarify the needs and capture the experience of the patients and family caregivers. We designed the “Bcare,” the smart service system for peer support in daily routine care at home based on these research. Through the testing, “Bcare” has been proved to improve the satisfaction of patients and family caregivers’ experience and reduce the burden of care for family caregivers.
