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Responses to vulnerability: care ethics and the technologisation of eldercare
- Author:
- HAMALAINEN Antti
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Care and Caring, 4(2), 2020, pp.167-182.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article argues for a re-conceptualisation of care relations and uses the re-conceptualisation to scrutinise the way in which technology is adopted in eldercare practices. First, it draws on the definition of care as attentiveness to vulnerability, as used in the tradition of care ethics. Second, it specifies four essential aspects of care relations: relationality, dyadic mutuality, corporeality and devotion. Third, using socio-technical and phenomenological perspectives, care relations are contrasted with the idea of intertwining technological and human actors in care practices. Finally, using two adaptations of telecare as examples, the essential aspects of care relations are shown to be crucial for a thorough socio-technical understanding of eldercare and technology. (Publisher abstract)
Elder abuse in Finland
- Author:
- KIVELA Sirkka-Liisa
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, 6(3/4), 1995, pp.31-44.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Outlines responses to elder abuse in Finland. Describes the demographic characteristics of the elderly population and Finnish social and health care services. Looks at: the 'discovery' of elder abuse; the extent and risk of elder abuse; explanations of the cause and efforts at prevention, detection and intervention in elder abuse.