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Home comforts
- Author:
- CASTLETON Beverly
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 21.09.06 Intelligence Supplement, 2006, p.11.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Prescribed telecare packages could help older or vulnerable people live at home safely for longer. The author asks why they are not more widely used, and looks at the successful experiences of North Surrey primary care trust.
Caring for older people in the community
- Editors:
- HUDSON Angela, MOORE Lesley, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 245p.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
This book is a compilation from 9 academics and practitioners, including the two editors. The first section (Chapters 1-3) discusses the past and current influences on physical, psychological and social ‘nursing’ practices and ethical tensions, when working with older people. Topics covered in the second section (chapters 4-6) with regard to contemporary challenges with older people who may have learning disabilities and dementia as well as experiencing ageing are, health education, sexual health, substance misuse, and the role of assistive technology. Examples of lived scenarios from service users and reflections from professionals are included. Current issues of kinship care for older people, ethics, palliative care and end of life decision making, complementary therapies, vulnerability, citizenship, informed consent, advocacy, empowerment, personalisation and a person centre approach are also mentioned. The third section from the joint editors, is on future challenges and covers: community hospitals, bringing diagnostic technology and chemotherapy interventions closer to cancer patients, the national panel for information and communications technology, ‘whole system demonstrators’, moving towards seamless care, and partnership with older people projects.
Interdisciplinary development of manual and automated product usability assessments for older adults with dementia: lessons learned
- Authors:
- BOGER Jennifer, TAATI Babak, MIHAILIDIS Alex
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 11(7), 2016, pp.581-587.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
The changes in cognitive abilities that accompany dementia can make it difficult to use everyday products that are required to complete activities of daily living. Products that are inherently more usable for people with dementia could facilitate independent activity completion, thus reducing the need for caregiver assistance. The objectives of this research were to: (1) gain an understanding of how water tap design impacted tap usability and (2) create an automated computerised tool that could assess tap usability. 27 older adults, who ranged from cognitively intact to advanced dementia, completed 1309 trials on five tap designs. Data were manually analysed to investigate tap usability as well as used to develop an automated usability analysis tool. Researchers collaborated to modify existing techniques and to create novel ones to accomplish both goals. This paper presents lessons learned through the course of this research, which could be applicable in the development of other usability studies, automated vision-based assessments and the development of assistive technologies for cognitively impaired older adults. Collaborative interdisciplinary teamwork, which included older adult with dementia participants, was key to enabling innovative advances that achieved the projects' research goals. Implications for Rehabilitation: a) Products that are implicitly familiar and usable by older adults could foster independent activity completion, potentially reducing reliance on a caregiver; b) The computer-based automated tool can significantly reduce the time and effort required to perform product usability analysis, making this type of analysis more feasible; c) Interdisciplinary collaboration can result in a more holistic understanding of assistive technology research challenges and enable innovative solutions. (Edited publisher abstract)
Managing assistive technology in hospice homecare: implications for multi-disciplinary teams
- Authors:
- CORNES Michelle, WEINSTEIN Pauline
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 13(6), December 2005, pp.17-25.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article explores the use of assistive technology, specifically community alarms, from the perspective of practitioners working in multidisciplinary hospice homecare. It draws on the findings of a small evaluative study of 25 hospice homecare schemes which participated in a project centred on rapid access to community alarm technology. It considers obstacles to implementation and workforce development issues arising out of an increased focus on assistive technology as a means of better managing the support of terminally ill people at home.
The new technology in elderly care project: a partnership between the London Boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, and Hammersmith Hospitals Trust
- Author:
- EALING. Housing and Social Service Department
- Publisher:
- Ealing. Housing and Social Service Department
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The aim of the New Technology in Elderly Care Project is to find out how new technology can benefit elderly people living in the community and to help them remain in their homes. This project has shown that new technology aids and devices could help people live more independently at home for longer periods of time and offer alternatives to residential and nursing care. This would eventually have an impact on the numbers of people wanting and needing institutional care.
State of the art in dementia care
- Editor:
- MARSHALL Mary
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 260p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Collection of papers. Part 1 looks at listening to people with dementia and their carers and includes chapters on: collaboration and interdependence; remembering the relationship in family caregiving for people with dementia; the impact of dementia on young carers; hearing the voices of people with dementia; the experience of writing with people with dementia; and the uniqueness of people with dementia. Part 2 is on policies and services, including: the European Alzheimer Clearing House; taking dementia services in Victoria into the 21st century; public policy in dementia care; staff issues in hospital and in the community; old age psychiatry and older people with dementia; home based respite care; personal finances; elder abuse; and advocacy. Part 3 looks at working together, including: team approaches to risk management; joint working; workforce recruitment and development; and community dementia team development in Coventry. Part 4 deals with interventions, Part 5 with buildings, fixtures and fittings, Part 6 with staff training; Part 7 with younger people with dementia; Part 8 with the media; Part 9 is on evaluation and critique and Part 10 examines death, sexuality and spirituality.