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Smart thinking
- Author:
- FISK Malcolm
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Nurse, February 2002, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Explores the use if technology in homes to empower vulnerable people and enable them to retain their independence.
Assistive technology: independence and well-being
- Author:
- AUDIT COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Audit Commission
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper looks in more depth at the role of assistive technology (AT) in supporting independence. It examines the place of AT in the current policy context and describes the current evidence to demonstrate how AT can support independence. It analyses the current obstacles to progress and explains how change can be introduced. New assistive technology can play a vital role in supporting the ways in which millions of older or disabled people can maintain or regain their independence. It also has the potential to modernise the way in which many aspects of health and social care are currently delivered to the benefit of users, carers, service providers and the taxpayer.
Using the evidence to develop quality assistive technology services
- Author:
- MOUNTAIN Gail
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 12(1), February 2004, pp.19-26.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Reports on a literature review and provides illustrations of how the evidence can be used to underpin the development of assistive technology services for older and disabled people and disabled children. The aim is to support the development of user-focused, accessible services.
From caring home to smart house - a needs led evolution
- Authors:
- BRADLEY D.A., LEVY S., BROWNSELL S.J.
- Journal article citation:
- New Technology in the Human Services, 14(1/2), 2001, pp.18-27.
- Publisher:
- Centre for Human Service Technology
A persons’ home provides them with a sense of security, familiarity and belonging, all of which contribute to the extent to which they feel that they have control over their life. In recent years technology has established an increased presence in this environment enabling (older) people to benefit from the use of systems, including community alarms, to make their lives more manageable. The Smart House concept is seen by some technology champions as an obvious progression of home healthcare technology, enabling the house to facilitate the support necessary to enable individuals to remain in their own home rather than being forced into a sheltered or institutional setting. Yet it may be argued that care provision through the medium of a Smart House transforms what is essentially an individually crafted environment into a fully operational extension of a clinical environment while losing crucial elements associated with an individual’s personal space. Home care technology that ‘grows with you’ rather than a Smart House that must ‘grow on you’ should therefore be the goal for work to find a technical solution to bridging the gap between available resources and demands on healthcare providers. This paper considers the need for home healthcare technologies and the ways in which they may evolve while introducing the concept of a ‘Technology Prescription’. This mode of future ‘smart’ care provision is suggested as a means of matching user need to appropriate technology, as part of a needs led approach which would allow for the gradual introduction of specific care technologies into a familiar home environment.
Human welfare and technology: papers from the Husita 3 conference on IT and the quality of life and services held in Maastricht, June 1993
- Editor:
- GLASTONBURY Bryan
- Publisher:
- Van Gorcum
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 290p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Den Haag
Papers from a conference focusing on the use of information technology in the human services. In 3 sections: setting the scene; quality of life; and quality of services. Includes the following papers: client information systems and their built-in values; community computing - linking health and human service resources to the community; supporting independent living through Adaptable Smart Home; an application of video telephones to maintain the quality of life of elderly people with special needs; new technologies and the Americans with Disabilities Act; networking; assessment and training of people with disabilities using new technologies; collecting accurate information about child abuse; issues within emergency planning in the United Kingdom; implementing case management technology; and in search of hidden knowledge - retrieve more information from your client database.