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EFORTT: ethical frameworks for telecare technologies for older people at home: final research report
- Author:
- LANCASTER UNIVERSITY
- Publisher:
- Lancaster University
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- Lancaster
EFORTT (Ethical Frameworks for Telecare technologies for older people at home) is an EU funded project which aimed to examine the ethical, social and gender implications of telecare interventions (remote care technologies worn, installed or embedded in homes) for older citizens in Spain, England, Norway and the Netherlands. The project involved the use of fieldwork (including documentary analysis, practice observations, and interviews with users, carers and practitioners) to gather information about preventive and responsive remote care practices, and recruitment of citizens' panels of older people and carers in each of the 4 partner countries as forums for views on telecare and future directions of care. Analysis of findings from the research was used to identify key themes and issues to inform discussion at the September 2010 Ageing with Technologies participative conference on care in Europe for practitioners, users, carers, policy makers and academics, the concluding session of which brought together proposals and priorities for future action on telecare which emerged from the discussions. This report describes the context and main findings of the research and its implications for policy and practice. The recommendations for ethical telecare development include providing care at home that is meaningful, sufficient and dignified, and ensuring engagement of older people in designing, developing and decision making about care.