Digital Transformations in Care for Older People: Critical Perspectives

Synopsis

The book investigates digitalisation in care for older people by giving insight into service users’ and professionals’ opportunities to digital agency in the context of European welfare states. With a focus on service users and providers experiences of digital care, the contributions address the manifold and often contradictory consequences of active ageing policies and innovation programmes. To assess digital agency of older people, ageism and co-creation in the innovation processes as well the use of digital platforms are addressed, while care professionals’ digital agency is examined through empirical cases that focus on the interaction between human and non-human actors in long-term care services, the temporality and spatiality of care, and the organisational requirements for successful implementation of digital technologies. From a variety of conceptual and theoretical viewpoints, the chapters provide a comprehensive and timely overview of ways to address the phenomena of ageing and digitalisation. The book provides critical vantage points to academic readership, health and social care professionals, policymakers, other stakeholders as well as the general audience on the effects of digitalisation in care for older people.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

192 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000482782

Related ISBNs:

9780367725594, 9781003155317, 9780367725570

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

02/22/23

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Helena Hirvonen, Mia Tammelin, Riitta Hänninen and Eveline J.M. Wouters

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Sociology

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Helena Hirvonen

Edited by:

Mia Tammelin

Edited by:

Riitta Hänninen

Edited by:

Eveline J.M. Wouters