Geriatric Helper: An mHealth Application to Support Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment

摘要: The Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) is a multidisciplinary diagnosis approach that considers several dimensions of fragility in older adults to develop an individualized plan improve their overall health. Despite the evidence its positive impact, CGA still applied by reduced number professionals geriatric care many countries, mostly using paper-based approach. In this context, we collaborate with clinicians bring attention more healthcare and enable easier application clinical settings proposing mobile application, Helper, act as pocket guide easy update remotely up-to-date information, acts tool for conducting CGA. This reduces time spent on retrieving scales documentation, overhead calculating results, works source information non-specialists. Helper health developed considering iterative, User-Centred Design approach, extensive contributions from broad set users including domain experts, resulting highly usable accepted system. currently being tested Portuguese units allowing any clinician apply otherwise experts-limited assessment.