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Striving to provide safety assistance for families of elders
— the SAFE House project | | Author(s) | Jennifer M Kinney, Cary S Kart, Latona D Murdoch |
| Journal title | Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 3, no 3, October 2004 |
| Pages | pp 351-370 |
| Source | http://www.sagepublications.com/ejournals |
| Keywords | Mental disorder ; Family care ; Safety devices ; Assistive technology ; Projects ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The process is described of installing a monitoring system in the homes of 19 families who were caring for a relative with dementia, and evaluating use of the system for 24 weeks. The system is Internet-based and consists of cameras and sensors that are routed through a controller unit via a broadband-connected computer to a website. From the website, text messages indicating sensor activity are sent to a cellphone that alerts caregivers to activity in the home. Specifically, the authors discuss "behind the scenes" issues associated with bundling the various technologies together and installing and maintaining the technologies to caregivers' homes. They describe the challenges that caregivers confronted while using the technology, and summarise caregivers' experiences with the technologies over the 24-week assessment period. Results indicate that, although the use of technology is not without challenge, it has the potential to facilitate family caregiving. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-041206206 A |
| Classmark | E: P6:SJ: OT: M: 3E: 7T |
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