ReviewNursing ethics2022
Ethical considerations in design and implementation of home-based smart care for dementia.
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- Promotors and barriers to the implementation and adoption of assistive technology and telecare for people with dementia and their caregivers: a systematic review of the literature.BMC health services research · 2022Pooled it
- Ethical considerations of artificial intelligence in dementia research: a review of reviews.The Gerontologist · 2026Review
- A strategic pathway for the ethical development of AI tools in dementia care.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- Provider Perspectives on the Design, Implementation, and Impact of Technology on Person-Centered Dementia Care: Insights From the Alzheimer's Association Dementia Care Provider Roundtable.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2026Article
- Ethical issues associated with assistive technologies for persons living with dementia and their caregivers - An overview of reviews.Dementia (London, England) · 2026Review
- A Preliminary Exploration of the Behavioural Criteria of Ethical Care With Dementia.Nursing open · 2026Review
- Ethical considerations in home monitoring technologies for persons living with cognitive impairment: a scoping review.The Gerontologist · 2026Article
- A scoping review of the governance of federated learning in healthcare.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Attitudes of Arab Family Caregivers in Israel Toward Robot-Delivered Care For ADL-Dependent (Activities of Daily Living-Dependent) Older People: Identifying Ethical and Social Issues.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2025Article
- Ethics of Sensor-Based Surveillance of People with Dementia in Clinical Practice.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Patient and Public Involvement in Technology-Related Dementia Research: Scoping Review.JMIR aging · 2024Article
- The Ethical, Care, and Client-Caregiver Relationship Impacts Resulting From Introduction of Digital Communication and Surveillance Technologies in the Home Setting: Qualitative Inductive Study.JMIR human factors · 2023Article
- Development of an intrinsic health risk prediction model for camera-based monitoring of older adults living alone.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
It has now become a realistic prospect for smart care to be provided at home for those living with long-term conditions such as dementia. In the contemporary smart care scenario, homes are fitted with an array of sensors for remote monitoring providing data that feed into intelligent systems developed to highlight concerning patterns of behaviour or physiological measurements and to alert healthcare professionals to the need for action. This paper explores some ethical issues that may arise within such smart care systems, focusing on the extent to which ethical issues can be addressed at the system design stage. Artificial intelligence has been widely portrayed as an ethically risky technology, posing challenges for privacy and human autonomy and with the potential to introduce and exacerbate bias and inequality. While broad principles for ethical artificial intelligence have become established, the mechanisms for governing ethical artificial intelligence are still evolving. In healthcare settings the implementation of smart technologies falls within the existing frameworks for ethical review and governance. Feeding into this ethical review there are many practical steps that designers can take to build ethical considerations into the technology. After exploring the pre-emptive steps that can be taken in design and governance to provide for an ethical smart care system, the paper reviews the potential for further ethical challenges to arise within the everyday implementation of smart care systems in the context of dementia, despite the best efforts of all concerned to pre-empt them. The paper concludes with an exploration of the dilemmas that may thus face healthcare professionals involved in implementing this kind of smart care and with a call for further research to explore ethical dimensions of smart care both in terms of general principles and lived experience.
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