1st Edition

Digital Welfare for the Third Age Health and social care informatics for older people

Edited By Brian D. Loader, Michael Hardey, Leigh Keeble Copyright 2009
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

This book is about the ways digital technology can contribute to the welfare of older people. The Internet, mobile phones and other technologies have changed how we live and work. Such technologies also shape how services for older people are organised in ways that potentially place carers and older people at the centre of service provision. Telecare can make homes ‘smart’ so that they are more... Read more

1. Introduction - Mike Hardey, Brian D. Loader & Leigh Keeble  Part 1: Towards Integrated Service Provision?  2. Are there Limits to the Integration of Care for Older People? - Rob Wilson  3. Partnership in assessment? A case study of integrated information sharing - Leigh Keeble, Brian D. Loader & Mike Hardey  Part 2: User-Centred Assessment and Autonomy  4. Perspectives on Telecare: Implications for Autonomy, Support and Social Inclusion - John Percival, Julienne Hanson, and Dorota Osipovic  5. ICTs and Healthcare: User-Centred Devices and Patient Work - Andrew Webster  6. Networked carers: digital exclusion or digital empowerment?  - John Powell  Part 3: Integrated User Design  7. Making sense of sensors: older people’s and professional caregivers’ attitudes towards telecare - Julienne Hanson, Dorota Osipovic and John Percival  8. The performativity of a volunteer based telecare service - Darren Reed  9. From have nots to watch dogs: understanding internet health communication behaviors of online senior citizens - Sally J. McMillan, Elizabeth Johnson Avery and Wendy Macias

 

 

The performativity of a volunteer based telecare service

Darren Reed

Biography

Brian D. Loader is Co-Director of the Social Informatics Research Unit, Department of Sociology, University of York.

Michael Hardey is Reader in Sociology at the Hull/York Medical School and the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Hull.

Leigh Keeble is a Development Officer in local government, and previously a Research Fellow at the University of York.