Resourceful DIY solutions of older people as input for design...International Society for Gerontechnology 13th World Conference, October 22-26, 2022, Daegu, South Korea
Purpose While creativity and innovativeness are often seen as a positive traits in younger people, the use of everyday objects and technologies in unforeseen or creative ways by older people is equally often seen as a cause for concern. Such behavior is seen as erratic and dangerous by for instance...
| Publicado en: | Gerontechnology Vol. 21; pp. 1 - 2 |
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International Society for Gerontechnology
Oct2022
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=161396114&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 161396114 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 15691101 904R jtl: Gerontechnology issn: 15691101 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2022 vid: 21 pid: 54298 pub: International Society for Gerontechnology artinfo: ui: 161396114 161396114 161396114 161396114 ppf: 1 ppct: 1 formats: tig: atl: Resourceful DIY solutions of older people as input for design...International Society for Gerontechnology 13th World Conference, October 22-26, 2022, Daegu, South Korea aug: au: Neven, L. Berschöld, J. affil: Avans Hogeschool, Breda, Netherlands sug: subj: Software Design In Old Age Gerontologic Care Digital Technology Activities of Daily Living Health Services for Older Persons Congresses and Conferences South Korea South Korea Aged Aged: 65+ years ab: Purpose While creativity and innovativeness are often seen as a positive traits in younger people, the use of everyday objects and technologies in unforeseen or creative ways by older people is equally often seen as a cause for concern. Such behavior is seen as erratic and dangerous by for instance designers, care workers and informal care givers as they fear that such deviant use may lead to harm. Implicitly and explicitly they adopt a paternalistic stance which allows them, and not the older people, to decide what technologies are safe and useful for older people. While it certainly is important to keep vulnerable older people safe, adopting the paternalistic stance and dissuading older people from solving their own problems is not wise. It reduces their autonomy, makes them passive and reliant on external help. We need to counter this way of viewing older people and to improve our understanding of the creative ways in which older people solve problems in everyday life. Method We draw on two social scientific projects that focus on the creative everyday life solutions of older people. The first is the Resourceful Ageing project (1, 2). In this project designers, engineers, social scientists and partners from industry worked together to understand the resourcefulness of older people and use it as an inspiration for the design of new gerontechnologies. During this project we used semi-structured interviews, ethnographically inspired observation techniques and an innovative diary approach to get an in depth understanding of the way in which older people use material and digital resources to enrich their lives or deal with everyday life challenges. The second project is the VELTEK project (3). This project studied the innovative work that frontline care professionals do to co-construct gerontechnologies and eldercare services, and how it shapes the experience of ageing. Using semi-structured interviews with care professionals, part of this project focused on their professional encounters with DIY gerontechnology (4) - innovative assemblages that older adults create for themselves in order to resolve issues that available gerontechnologies do not address. Results and Discussion We will show that older participants have their own technological literacy which allows them to craft creative inherently non-stigmatizing solutions for everyday life problems, which are understandable and useful to them. Moreover, a focus on creative solutions highlights what is important to older people and resourceful solutions are often a source of pride and satisfaction. Instead of imposing high-tech innovations that don't fit in with the lives of older people, analyzing and linking up with their resourcefulness is a more promising route to designs that do fit in. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: abstract proceedings research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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