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How to respond to resistiveness towards assistive technologies among persons with dementia.
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- Ethical issues associated with assistive technologies for persons living with dementia and their caregivers - An overview of reviews.Dementia (London, England) · 2026Review
- The Lived Experience of Older Adults with Monitoring Technologies: An Interpretive Phenomenology Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Ethics, design, and implementation criteria of digital assistive technologies for people with dementia from a multiple stakeholder perspective: a qualitative study.BMC medical ethics · 2024Article
- Relational Solidarity and Conflicting Ethics in Dementia Care in Urban India.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024Article
- Identification of Ethical Issues and Practice Recommendations Regarding the Use of Robotic Coaching Solutions for Older Adults: Narrative Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Review
- The Ethics of Electronic Tracking Devices in Dementia Care: An Interview Study with Developers.Science and engineering ethics · 2024Article
- Electronic Tracking Devices for People With Dementia: Content Analysis of Company Websites.JMIR aging · 2022Article
- Algorithmic harms and digital ageism in the use of surveillance technologies in nursing homes.Frontiers in sociology · 2022Article
- Towards Responsible Implementation of Monitoring Technologies in Institutional Care.The Gerontologist · 2020Article
- The power of knowledge about dementia in Latin America across health professionals working on aging.Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2020Article
- Elderspeak to Resident Dementia Patients Increases Resistiveness to Care in Health Care Profession.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingReview
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Abstract
It is a common experience among care professionals that persons with dementia often say 'no' to conventional caring measures such as taking medication, eating or having a shower. This tendency to say 'no' may also concern the use of assistive technologies such as fall detectors, mobile safety alarms, Internet for social contact and robots. This paper provides practical recommendations for care professionals in home health care and social care about how to respond to such resistiveness towards assistive technologies. Apart from the option of accepting the 'no', it discusses a number of methods for influencing persons with dementia in order to overcome the 'no'. These methods range from various non-coercive measures-including nudging-to coercion. It is argued that while conventional caring measures like those mentioned are essential for survival, health or hygiene, assistive technologies are commonly merely potentially beneficial supplements. With this in mind, it is concluded that care professionals should be more restrictive in using methods of influence involving some degree of pressure regarding assistive technologies than regarding conventional caring measures.
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