TY  - JOUR
JF  - Universal Access in the Information Society
SN  - 1615-5289
Y1  - 2007/09//
A1  - Hanson, J.
A1  - Percival, J.
A1  - Aldred, H.
A1  - Brownsell, S.
A1  - Hawley, M.
TI  - Attitudes to telecare among older people, professional care workers and informal carers: a preventative strategy or crisis management?
IS  - 2
ID  - discovery3845
EP  - 205
VL  - 6
AV  - public
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10209-007-0075-y
N2  - This paper reports findings from an attitudinal survey towards telecare that emerged from twenty-two focus groups comprising ninety-two older people, fifty-five professional stakeholders and thirty-nine carers. These were convened in three different regions of England as a precursor to telecare service development. The results from this study suggest that informants? views were shaped by prior knowledge of conventional health and social care delivery in their locality and the implication is that expectations and requirements in respect of telecare services in general are likely to be informed by wider perceptions about the extent to which community care should operate as a preventative strategy or as a mechanism for crisis management.
N1  - This is a pre-print of an article to be published in the special issue titled "Designing Accessible Technology" (Guest Editors: Patrick Langdon, John Clarkson and Peter Robinson)
SP  - 193
KW  - telecare
KW  -  older people
KW  -  attitudinal survey
KW  -  user needs
ER  -