Using Technologies with Care : Notes on Technology Assimilation Processes in Home Care

Elderly care is currently undergoing a phase of development in which new technologies are anticipated to increase efficiency, secure quality of services and give care assistants more time with the elderly people. This thesis reports on a study of how people involve technologies in everyday home care...

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Main Author: Orre, Carl Johan
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Umeå universitet, Informatik 2009
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