I'd have thought that the UK National Health Service (NHS) would be a good place to start looking for information. There's lots of different types of home technology. I have an oxygen machine and a simmer frame! One technological the other pretty basic. So do ask them the right questions.

Good luck

Christopher NOCK

I think you may want to be clearer about "medically assistive technologies." That could be anything from a TTY machine for those with deafness to a motorized ramp to assit people who can no longer climb stairs. It can also mean a hospital bed to permit late-stage palliative care; oxygen for those with COPD, and so on. What they all have is the ability to extend the residency of persons with limiting conditions. Ethically, it is about support for those persons who presumably value both the constancy of continued residence and, to the extent society provides it, the commuity's support of that value. Of course, it also presents a cost efficiency since home care, with support, is usually less expensive (even with home and personal care workers) than institutional care. So one measure is simply the number of persons who remain at home, and with those aides in community, as opposed to those without who for their own safety and needs must be in a professional institution.

Try looking at this link Article MedEthEx: Toward a medical ethics advisor