Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Nightmares, Promises and Efficiencies in care and Research
- Part I Norms and Nightmares
- Part II Knowledge and Promises
- Part III Routines and Efficiencies
- Conclusions: On Studying Innovation
- Acknowledgements
- Appendix: Projects Studied for this Book
- Notes
- References
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
Appendix: Projects Studied for this Book
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 February 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Nightmares, Promises and Efficiencies in care and Research
- Part I Norms and Nightmares
- Part II Knowledge and Promises
- Part III Routines and Efficiencies
- Conclusions: On Studying Innovation
- Acknowledgements
- Appendix: Projects Studied for this Book
- Notes
- References
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
Summary
Other projects
One homecare project went bankrupt before we could interview staff (hence not listed in table). Two homecare projects failed when homecare organisations went bankrupt.
Conferences and meetings
We attended conferences as well as demonstrations and presentations by the industry, e-health presentations from national patient organisations, and so on. We studied project documentation and followed public discussions.
Citizen panels
We organised five panels for the EU study, three in 2008, two in 2010. We invited telecare users, potential users and people caring for their elders to discuss their views on telecare developments. The first three panels discussed the participants’ notions of good care and problems they feared or wanted to see solved. We introduced telecare technology in the second part of the meeting: a monitoring device for heart failure; webcam communication with a professional carer or informal carer; internet & email; alarms & sensors; robot pets.
We organised a meeting to discuss preliminary findings from the ethnographic studies. Also, the findings from the first round of citizen panels was fed back to participants, and some results from other countries were also presented.
EU partners
Ethnographic material, analyses and papers from the European partners participating in the European study were also used as a background for the Dutch case studies. Participating countries were Great Britain, Spain and Norway.
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- Care at a DistanceOn the Closeness of Technology, pp. 157 - 160Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2012