Safe at Home with Assistive Technology
Description
This book describes how assistive technology can help disabled, elderly, and temporarily sick people manage their daily lives better and stay safe in the home. It discusses safety from technical, social, and ethical perspectives, providing examples of the challenges that users, their helpers, and professional carers face with assistive technology in everyday situations.
In this second, expanded, and updated edition, the book offers new insights from user-centered research and shows the latest gadgets in assistive technology to answer the central question: How can users and technology work together to ensure safety? The new edition includes coverage of AI and gadgets in home care, palliative care, and assistive technology.
User-focused and combining experience with research, the book will interest users of these technologies, health professionals who might introduce or prescribe them, engineers who develop and sell assistive technological gadgets, and architects who build safe homes. Researchers and students in fields such as architecture, education, engineering, facility management, medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, rehabilitative medicine, physiotherapy, social science, and speech therapy will also find this book valuable.
It provides knowledge and experience in the field of Assistive Technology, examines ways to test its effectiveness from the perspectives of users, health professionals, and researchers from different fields, and lists useful addresses, websites, and literature.
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Ingrid Kollak is Director of the Berlin Institute of Healthcare and Former Professor in the fields of health care and nursing for more than 25 years with direct client and patient contacts. Ingrid Kollak is Leader of studies on health care and technology, which cooperate with users, health professionals from different fields, as well as small companies developing assistive technology and counselors. The studies are financially supported by federal money. Ingrid Kollak is Author of a range of books on self-care, healthcare organization, and health interventions.
Content
Human-system collaboration for active and healthy ageing in and around the home - Six applied examples from ambient sensors, cubes, active walkers to avatars.- A comforting presence? Emerging technology's role in palliative home care.- Citizen science in technology consulting.- The participatory innovation center as A roadmap for the caring community.- Telemonitoring in health care - Creating the potential for a safer life at home.- Case-based analysis of ethical aspects in the use of technical support systems for people with dementia.- Assistive technology for people with dementia: Ethical considerations with a focus on the use of tracking devices.- The rapid development of gaze control: From medical aid to virtual reality gadget and back.- Integrating technology and care: Evaluating assistive technologies in outpatient settings.- Digitisation as a strategy for the inclusion and empowerment of older adults.- "i'd rather do without my fridge than my ipad": A lifeline in the digital age: Case management through technology for older adults with multiple conditions.- From global to local: Examining domestic fall risks among older adults.- Safe at home with AI assistance.