Matters of care when introducing technology: The case of remote monitoring at night by camera...International Society for Gerontechnology's (ISG) 12th World Conference of Gerontechnology, October 6-9, 2020 (Virtual)
Purpose Professional caregivers are asked to use various technological devices, which are expected to support them or even act in their place. From a theoretical perspective, care is more and more delegated to technologies (Latour, 1992). Care practices are transformed by this relationship between h...
| Publicado en: | Gerontechnology Vol. 19; pp. 109 - 110 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=155639998&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 155639998 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 15691101 904R jtl: Gerontechnology issn: 15691101 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2020 Supplement vid: 19 pid: 54298 pub: International Society for Gerontechnology artinfo: ui: 155639998 155639998 155639998 10.4017/gt.2020.19.s.69806 155639998 ppf: 109 ppct: 1 formats: tig: atl: Matters of care when introducing technology: The case of remote monitoring at night by camera...International Society for Gerontechnology's (ISG) 12th World Conference of Gerontechnology, October 6-9, 2020 (Virtual) aug: au: Crevani, L. Cozza, M. Bruzzone, S. affil: Malardalen university, Box 883, 721 23 Vasteras, Sweden sug: subj: Patient Care In Old Age Monitoring, Physiologic Equipment and Supplies Technology Equipment and Supplies Quality of Life In Old Age Caregiver Attitudes Congresses and Conferences Aged Aged: 65+ years ab: Purpose Professional caregivers are asked to use various technological devices, which are expected to support them or even act in their place. From a theoretical perspective, care is more and more delegated to technologies (Latour, 1992). Care practices are transformed by this relationship between humans and artifacts (Oudshoorn, 2008). The purpose of the paper is to explore how the issues that emerge during the implementation of new technology are attended to by caregivers and what this means for developing care mediated by technology committed to older people's quality of life. Method We study the process of introducing a camera for remote monitoring at night in older people's houses (see figure 1) in a Swedish municipality by means of interviews and ethnographic observations. We analyze how this technology becomes part of care practices by following its implementation. Results and Discussion In a previous paper (Crevani & Cozza, 2018), we mobilized Latour's concept of matter of concern (Latour, 2005) for describing the need to foreground "complicated, engaging, diverse, fragile, and situated issues" (Crevani & Cozza, 2018, p. 1) to be addressed, not concealed, when introducing technology for older people. With this paper, we advance the argument by following Puig de la Bellacasa in her move from matters of concern to matters of care. By focusing on the process of delegation of caring to the camera we show how it turned to be a matter of care for several caregivers as issues concerning its use emerged. The concept of care adds a stronger affective and ethical connotation (Puig de la Bellacasa, 2017, p. 89) to the issues we focus on. It helps us to highlight that caregivers are not only affected by interacting with technologies at work. Caregivers are also strongly committed to ethically dealing with such issues in order to provide good care. We conclude by discussing how attending to matters of care can support developing care committed to enhancing older people's quality of life. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: abstract proceedings research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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