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Monitoring people with dementia
— controlling or liberating? | | Author(s) | Celia Price |
| Journal title | Quality in Ageing, vol 8, no 3, September 2007 |
| Pages | pp 41-44 |
| Source | http://www.pavpub.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Assistive technology ; Information technology ; Living alone ; Case studies. |
| Annotation | In the increasing discussion about electronic assistive technology, the most emotive reactions are provided when it is suggested that technology is used to monitor older people with dementia. The words associated with monitoring are rather negative: surveillance, 'big brother', intrusive, controlling. For the past two years, care practitioners in local authorities and NHS mental health trusts have been using the Just Checking activity monitoring system to assess people with dementia, living alone in their own homes. Small, wireless movement sensors, placed in the key rooms of the house, are triggered as the person goes about daily life; the data are represented as a line on a 24-hour chart. There are no cameras. The chart is access via a password controlled website. The charts give care professionals and family carers a much clearer picture of how a person with dementia is acting in the home environment. The information is used to devise a care package that is appropriate and will support continued independent living. This article presents three case studies of women with dementia living in their own homes. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071001005 A |
| Classmark | EA: M: UVB: K8: 69P |
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