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New technology and community care
- Author:
- SIXSMITH Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 2(6), November 1994, pp.367-378.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Community care is currently a low-technology, labour intensive industry, based mainly on face-to-face contact between client and carer. However, there are strong indications that new technologies within telecommunications, telematics, robotics and information processing could have a big impact on the way community care is delivered. Outlines some of the actual and potential areas of application of new technology within community care.
Leading the way: crisis voice for users
- Author:
- KING Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.7.93, 1993, p.20.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Enterprise Awards: as winners of one of 'Community Care' journal's awards social workers and clients in Liverpool are making use of computer technology to produce printouts and flow charts of vital service components to fit exactly the needs of adults with multiple disabilities living in the community.
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.