Telephone-Based Emotional Support for Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Bar-Tur, Liora; Inbal-Jacobson, Michal; Brik-Deshen, Sharon; Zilbershlag, Yael; Naim, Sigal Pearl; Brick, Yitzhak

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“…Nevertheless, the lion's share of research and industry excitement centres on the promises of ‘intelligent’ assistive technologies and digitalised information and communication technologies to improve older people's lives (Buse et al, 2018). Indeed, in our digitised era older people's access to technology is being framed as a ‘human right’(Fang et al, 2021), a claim strengthened in the post‐COVID‐19 world where digital health care is being promoted as a fundamental systems change for delivering health care to older people (Monaghesh and Hajizadeh, 2020; Bar‐Tur et al, 2021).…”

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Dispensing care?: The dosette box and the status of low‐fi technologies within older people’s end‐of‐life caregiving practices

Morgan

Duschinsky

Barclay

2022

Sociology Health & Illness

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Technology has been lauded as a solution to range of challenges presented by ageing population internationally. While the lion‐share of scholarship has focussed on high‐fi, digital technologies, there has been a recent shift to exploring the contributions mundane, low‐fi technologies make to older people's daily lives and our understandings of health, illness and care more broadly. Drawing from serial narrative interview data collected with 19 married couples aged 70 and over living in the U.K., this article explores the way one medical technology—the dosette box—was taken‐up and deployed in their end‐of‐life caring process. Informed by actor–network theory and critical feminist scholarship, this article considers how the dosette box played an active role in structuring relationships, scheduling daily care activities and enforcing medical compliance. In doing so, we suggest that the dosette box provided an unexpected companion and ‘weapon of the weak’ for older partner's attempting to assert their expertise and power while caring. We also explore how the dosette box demanded an even higher level of regular, vital care from older partner's once introduced into the home, thus entrenching the physical and emotional demands of dispensing care.

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Dispensing care?: The dosette box and the status of low‐fi technologies within older people’s end‐of‐life caregiving practices

Morgan

Duschinsky

Barclay

2022

Sociology Health & Illness

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Video-Based Communication and Its Association with Loneliness, Mental Health and Quality of Life among Older People during the COVID-19 Outbreak

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Thygesen

Leung

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The aim of the study was to examine the use of video-based communication and its association with loneliness, mental health and quality of life in older adults (60–69 years versus 70+ years) during the COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-sectional online survey was conducted in Norway, UK, USA and Australia during April/May 2020, and 836 participants in the relevant age groups were included in the analysis. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to examine associations between the use of video-based communication tools and loneliness, mental health and quality of life within age groups, while adjusting by sociodemographic variables. Video-based communication tools were found to be more often used among participants aged 60–69 years (60.1%), compared to participants aged 70 or above (51.8%, p < 0.05). Adjusting for all variables, the use of video-based communication was associated with less loneliness (β = −0.12, p < 0.01) and higher quality of life (β = 0.14, p < 0.01) among participants aged 60–69 years, while no associations were observed for participants in the oldest age group. The use of video-based communication tools was therefore associated with favorable psychological outcomes among participants in their sixties, but not among participants in the oldest age group. The study results support the notion that age may influence the association between the use of video-based communication tools and psychological outcomes amongst older people.

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Telephone-Based Emotional Support for Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Dispensing care?: The dosette box and the status of low‐fi technologies within older people’s end‐of‐life caregiving practices

Dispensing care?: The dosette box and the status of low‐fi technologies within older people’s end‐of‐life caregiving practices

Video-Based Communication and Its Association with Loneliness, Mental Health and Quality of Life among Older People during the COVID-19 Outbreak

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