Author :
Christensen, Lars Rune
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Aarhus Univ., Aarhus, Denmark
Abstract :
Family members may in a significant manner contribute to the care of the elderly. The paper discusses, on the basis of a field study, the involvement of family members in the care of elderly living independently in their own homes. It argues that it is prudent to include family members when designing pervasive healthcare for the home of the elderly. That is, it may be fruitful to include them as a category to be designed for as well as a group to be included in the participatory design process.
Keywords :
geriatrics; health care; social sciences computing; elderly people care; family members; kin; pervasive healthcare; Aging; Cities and towns; Cognition; Computer aided software engineering; Computer science; Medical services; Process design; Senior citizens; Surgery; Wheelchairs; Pervasive healthcare; elderly; family; home; participatory design;
Conference_Titel :
Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), 2010 4th International Conference on-NO PERMISSIONS
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-963-9799-89-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-963-9799-89-9
DOI :
10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8823
