Safe at Home with Assistive Technology

✍ Scribed by Ingrid Kollak (eds.)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 229
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book describes how assistive technology can help handicapped, elderly and acutely sick people to manage their daily lives better and stay safe in the home. It discusses how safety is understood from an ethical, technical and social perspective, and offers examples of the problems that users, their helpers and professional carers have with assistive technology in everyday situations.

The book provides insights from user-centred research and uses photographs to illustrate the main topic: how users and technology can work together to ensure safety. User-focused and combining experience with research, the book will interest users of these kinds of technology, health professionals who might introduce and/or prescribe them, engineers who develop and sell assistive technological gadgets, and architects who build safe homes – as well as researchers and students who work in these fields. It provides an overview of the existing technology, examines ways to test its effectiveness from the point of view of users, health professionals and researchers from different fields (architecture, education, engineering, facility management, medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, rehabilitative medicine, physiotherapy, social science and speech therapy), and lists useful addresses, websites and literature

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Prerequisites: Assistive Technologies Between User Centered Assistance and ‘Technicalization’....Pages 1-4
Living Safely and Actively in and Around the Home: Four Applied Examples from Avatars and Ambient Cubes to Active Walkers....Pages 5-30
Using Gaze Control for Communication and Environment Control: How to Find a Good Position and Start Working....Pages 31-42
Caring TV—for Older People with Multimorbidity Living Alone: Positive Feedback from Users in Berlin and Rural Mecklenburg-West Pomerania....Pages 43-57
Arm Rehabilitation at Home for People with Stroke: Staying Safe: Encouraging Results from the Co-designed LifeCIT Programme....Pages 59-79
Telemonitoring in Home Care: Creating the Potential for a Safer Life at Home....Pages 81-93
Empowering the Elderly and Promoting Active Ageing Through the Internet: The Benefit of e-inclusion Programmes....Pages 95-108
Use and Development of New Technologies in Public Welfare Services: A User-Centred Approach Using Step by Step Communication for Problem Solving....Pages 109-135
Parents’ Experiences of Caring for a Ventilator-Dependent Child: A Review of the Literature....Pages 137-151
Evaluation and Outcomes of Assistive Technologies in an Outpatient Setting: A Technical-Nursing Science Approach....Pages 153-171
Assistive Technology for People with Dementia: Ethical Considerations....Pages 173-191
Back Matter....Pages 193-230