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How Do Telecare and Assistive Technologies Impact on Care-Giving?

Friday, July 18, 2014: 5:30 PM-7:20 PM
Room: Booth 40
RC11 Sociology of Aging (host committee)

Language: English

Session Organizer:
Andreas HOFF, Zittau-Görlitz University, Germany
The Role of Assistive Technology for Personal Care Activities of Daily Living to Enable Families to Care for Relatives with Dementia in Their Location of Choice (Oral Presentation)
Suzanne SNOWDEN, Institute of Gerontology, England; Karen GLASER, King's College London, United Kingdom; Anthea TINKER, King's College London, United Kingdom

Developing Care-Technologies While Balancing Utopian/Dystopian Worldviews: Dimensions of Attention (Oral Presentation)
An JACOBS, iMinds SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Pieter DUYSBURGH, iMinds SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Karen WILLEMS, iMinds SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Shirley ELPRAMA, iMinds SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Jasmien DECANCQ, iMinds SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Tool, Toy or Therapist? the Relevance of Emotion Stimulating Robots in Elderly Health Care (Oral Presentation)
Michaela PFADENHAUER, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

The Potential of Telecare/Aal Technologies for Enabling ‚Ageing in Place‘ in Rural Areas in Poland and Germany (Oral Presentation)
Jolanta PEREK-BIALAS, Warsaw School of Economics & Jagiellonian University Cracow, Poland; Andreas HOFF, Zittau-Görlitz University, Germany

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