Digital Transformations in Care for Older People (eBook, ePUB)

Critical Perspectives
Redaktion: Hirvonen, Helena; Wouters, Eveline J. M.; Hänninen, Riitta; Tammelin, Mia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book investigates digitalisation in care for older people by giving insight into service users' and professionals' opportunities to digital agency in the context of European welfare states.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000482782
• Artikelnr.: 62659650

Autorenporträt

Helena Hirvonen, Ph.D., Adjunct Prof., is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland and a senior researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Research on Aging and Care at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Mia Tammelin, PhD., Adjunct Prof., is a Principal lecturer at Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences, School of Health and Social Studies and a Senior researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Research on Aging and Care at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Riitta Hänninen, Ph.D., is Cultural anthropologist who works as a senior researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Research on Aging and Care at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Eveline J.M. Wouters was Educated as a physician and epidemiologist and is a Professor at Fontys University of Applied Science, School of allied health professions and at Tilburg University, School of social and behavioural sciences, department of Tranzo, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Studying Digital Transformation in Care of Older People
1. Introduction
2. Healthcare and Technology: The Multi-Level Perspective. Theories, Models and Frameworks
Part II: Digital Agency of Older People
3. The ageing entrepreneur: Co-opting older adults into the siliconisation of care
4. 'Bridging' and 'Fixing' Endangered Social Rights in the Digitalising Welfare State: The Ambiguous Role of Third-Sector Organisations in Supporting Marginalised Older Migrants in Finland
5. Ageism in Applying Digital Technology in Healthcare: Implications for Adoption and Actual Use
Part III: Digital Agency in Care Work
6. Temporalities of Digital Eldercare
7. New Choreographies of Care: Understanding the Digital Transformation of Body Work in Care for Older People
8. Sense of Belonging in a Digitalised Care Work Community
9. Sealing the Deal? Irish Caregivers' Experiences of Paro, the Social Robot
10. Digital Skills and Application Use among Finnish Home Care Workers in the Elder Care Sector

Rezensionen

"Care for older people is stepping into a brave new digital world and Digital Transformations is among the very first books to address this ongoing metamorphosis. It does this head on, providing a sharp-eyed critical analysis of the emergence of digicare."

Professor Teppo Kröger, University of Jyväskylä, Finland