Safe at Home with Assistive Technology

Safe at Home with Assistive Technology edited by Ingrid Kollak.

This book describes how assistive technology can help handicapped, elderly and acutely sick people to manage their daily lives better and stay safe in the home. It discusses how safety is understood from an ethical, technical and social perspective, and offers examples of the problems that users, th...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kollak, Ingrid (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Geriatric nursing.
Biomedical engineering.
Health economics.
Rehabilitation.
Occupational therapy.
Physiotherapy.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Prerequisits
  • Living safely and actively in and around the home Four applied examples from avatars and ambient cubes to active walkers
  • Using gaze control for communication and environment control How to find a good position and start working
  • Caring TV – for older people with multimorbidity living alone Positive feedback from users in Berlin and rural Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
  • Arm rehabilitation at home for people with stroke: staying safe Encouraging results from the co-designed LifeCIT pro-gramme
  • Telemonitoring in home care Creating the potential for a safer life at home
  • Empowering the elderly and promoting active ageing through the Internet The benefit of e-inclusion programmes
  • Use and development of new technologies in public wel-fare services A user-centred approach using step by step communication for problem solving
  • Parents’ experiences of caring for a ventilator-dependent child: a review of the literature
  • Evaluation and outcomes of assistive technologies in an outpatient setting – a technical-nursing science approach
  • Assistive technology for people with dementia: ethical considerations. .

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