Safe at Home with Assistive Technology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Prerequisites: Assistive Technologies Between User Centered Assistance and ‘Technicalization’

   • Ingrid Kollak

   Pages 1-4

3. Living Safely and Actively in and Around the Home: Four Applied Examples from Avatars and Ambient Cubes to Active Walkers

   • Martin Biallas, Edith Birrer, Daniel Bolliger, Andreas Rumsch, Rolf Kistler, Alexander Klapproth et al.

   Pages 5-30

4. Using Gaze Control for Communication and Environment Control: How to Find a Good Position and Start Working

   • Maxine Saborowski, Claudia Nuß, Anna Lena Grans, Ingrid Kollak

   Pages 31-42

5. Caring TV—for Older People with Multimorbidity Living Alone: Positive Feedback from Users in Berlin and Rural Mecklenburg-West Pomerania

   • Stefan Schmidt, Anke S. Kampmeier

   Pages 43-57

6. Arm Rehabilitation at Home for People with Stroke: Staying Safe: Encouraging Results from the Co-designed LifeCIT Programme

   • Ann-Marie Hughes, Claire Meagher, Jane Burridge

   Pages 59-79

7. Telemonitoring in Home Care: Creating the Potential for a Safer Life at Home

   • Natalie Jankowski, Laura Schönijahn, Michael Wahl

   Pages 81-93

8. Empowering the Elderly and Promoting Active Ageing Through the Internet: The Benefit of e-inclusion Programmes

   • María Sánchez-Valle, Mónica Vinarás Abad, Carmen Llorente-Barroso

   Pages 95-108

9. Use and Development of New Technologies in Public Welfare Services: A User-Centred Approach Using Step by Step Communication for Problem Solving

   • Josef M. Huber, Helen Schneider, Verena Pfister, Barbara Steiner

   Pages 109-135

10. Parents’ Experiences of Caring for a Ventilator-Dependent Child: A Review of the Literature

    • Minna Lahtinen, Katja Joronen

    Pages 137-151

11. Evaluation and Outcomes of Assistive Technologies in an Outpatient Setting: A Technical-Nursing Science Approach

    • Ulrike Lindwedel-Reime, Alexander Bejan, Beatrix Kirchhofer, Peter Koenig

    Pages 153-171

12. Assistive Technology for People with Dementia: Ethical Considerations

    • Hesook Suzie Kim

    Pages 173-191

13. Erratum to: Living Safely and Actively in and Around the Home: Four Applied Examples from Avatars and Ambient Cubes to Active Walkers

    • Martin Biallas, Edith Birrer, Daniel Bolliger, Andreas Rumsch, Rolf Kistler, Alexander Klapproth et al.

    Pages E1-E1

14. Back Matter

    Pages 193-230

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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, their helpers and professional carers have with assistive technology in everyday situations.

The book provides insights from user-centred research and uses photographs to illustrate the main topic: how users and technology can work together to ensure safety. User-focused and combining experience with research, the book will interest users of these kinds of technology, health professionals who might introduce and/or prescribe them, engineers who develop and sell assistive technological gadgets, and architects who build safe homes – as well as researchers and students who work in these fields. It provides an overview of the existing technology, examines ways to test its effectiveness from the point of view of users, health professionals and researchers from different fields (architecture, education, engineering, facility management, medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, rehabilitative medicine, physiotherapy, social science and speech therapy), and lists useful addresses, websites and literature

• Telemedicine
• Alternative Communication
• Technical Supervision
• Health-Care Organisation
• Health Interventions

• Applied Science Berlin (D), Alice Salomon University of Applied Science Berlin (D), Berlin, Germany

  Ingrid Kollak

Ingrid Kollak is currently a professor in the fields of health care and nursing with more than 20 years experience with direct client and patient contacts. A 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 counsellors, Professor Kollak is also an author of a range of books on self-care, health-care organisation and health interventions.

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