Placing assistive technology and telecare in everyday practices of people with dementia and their caregivers: findings from an embedded ethnography of a national dementia trial

Abstract Background Policy makers and care providers see assistive technology and telecare as potential products to support people with dementia to live independently in their homes and communities. Previous research rarely examined how people with dementia and their caregivers actually use such tec...

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Main Authors: Matthew Lariviere, Fiona Poland, John Woolham, Stanton Newman, Chris Fox
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-02-01
Series:BMC Geriatrics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-020-01896-y