Digital Transformations in Care for Older People: Critical Perspectives

The book investigates digitalization in care for older people by giving insight into service users and professionals opportunities to digital agency in the context of European welfare states. It assesses ageism and co-creation in the innovation processes, as well as the use of digital platforms, and examines care professionals digital agency through empirical cases. It provides critical vantage points to academic readership, health and social care professionals, policymakers, other stakeholders, and the general audience on the effects of digitalization in care for older people.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The book investigates digitalisation in care for older people by giving insight into service users’ and professionals’ opportunities to digital agency in the context of European welfare states.

With a focus on service users and providers experiences of digital care, the contributions address the manifold and often contradictory consequences of active ageing policies and innovation programmes. To assess digital agency of older people, ageism and co-creation in the innovation processes as well the use of digital platforms are addressed, while care professionals’ digital agency is examined through empirical cases that focus on the interaction between human and non-human actors in long-term care services, the temporality and spatiality of care, and the organisational requirements for successful implementation of digital technologies.

From a variety of conceptual and theoretical viewpoints, the chapters provide a comprehensive and timely overview of ways to address the phenomena of ageing and digitalisation. The book provides critical vantage points to academic readership, health and social care professionals, policymakers, other stakeholders as well as the general audience on the effects of digitalisation in care for older people.

"The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. The Open Access fee was funded by University of Jyvaskyla, Finland."

Weight: 390g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367725594