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Challenges in caregiving and creative solutions
— using technology to facilitate caring for a relative with dementia | | Author(s) | Jennifer M Kinney, Cary S Kart, Latona D Murdoch |
| Journal title | Ageing International, vol 28, no 3, Summer 2003 |
| Pages | pp 295-313 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Family care ; Technology ; Information technology ; Assistive technology ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | Borrowing principles from total quality management (TQM) and the emerging consumer satisfaction movement in the field of ageing, the authors explored how technology might assist family members who are caring at home for a relative with dementia. In Phase 1, focus groups with a total of 26 current or former caregivers revealed that, as caregivers and the relatives for whom they care, safety is a key concern as they struggle to maintain continuity of roles, relationships and lifestyles. Despite the limited use by some caregivers of "low-tech" tools (e.g. door alarms and intercoms), caregivers lack a comprehensive system to enhance their relatives' safety. In Phase 2, the authors identified an Internet-based monitoring system to deal with caregivers' major concerns. In Phase 3, focus groups with 8 caregivers evaluated the system identified in Phase 2. Results suggest that affordable technologies exist to assist family caregivers, and that these caregivers were amenable to using these technologies. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040401204 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SJ: Y9: UVB: M: 3F |
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