Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Window work : Screen-based eldercare and professional precarity at the welfare frontier

Notes: Sumario: Digital technologies have become essential components in the organisation and delivery of elder care. With this article, we want to contribute to the study and discussion of the role and effects of monitors and telecare solutions in situated care practices. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among elderly citizens and healthcare workers in Denmark during the early phases of the corona crisis, we explore the introduction of screen-based technologies in eldercare and their implications. Our focus is particularly on what health professionals must do, to accomplish meaningful encounters through screens. In this context, we introduce the concept of window work to highlight how screens are active participants in care and how they frame and delimit what health practitioners can see, do and achieve in everyday care practices in significant and often unpredictable ways.

Related records: En: International Journal of Ageing and Later Life (IJAL) . - Los Angeles, CA : Scientific Research Publishing, 2021-2022 = ISSN 1652-8670. - 11/04/2022 Volumen 15 Número 2 - 2022 , p. 23-50Materia / lugar / evento: Anciano Nuevas tecnologías Otros autores: Hillersdal, Line
Winther, Jonas
Other categories: 931.2

Rights: In Copyright (InC)

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