Design considerations to support nursing homes' communities

Abstract

Caring for institutionalized older adults is known to be a complex issue both for families and professionals. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in this topic primarily due to a growing older population and, hence, a heightened need of research contributions in this area. Previous studies on caregiving for older adults living in nursing homes recognize the necessity to support professionals' work practices to ameliorate their working conditions, and decrease the risk of burnout and job dissatisfaction. In this study, we investigated the practice of caregiving at nursing homes in the Northern Italy in the form of a case-study. We mainly focus on the work practices of care professionals, and on the relational issues between professional and family caregivers. The outcomes of this work shed new light on the opportunities of using ICT solutions to improve relations and information sharing among caregivers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	C and T 2017 - 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Conference Proceedings
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	64-67
Number of pages	4
Volume	Part F128532
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450348546
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3083671.3083695
Publication status	Published - 26 Jun 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies: Technologies for the Common Good, C and T 2017 - Troyes, France Duration: 26 Jun 2017 → 30 Jun 2017

Conference

Conference	8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies: Technologies for the Common Good, C and T 2017
Country	France
City	Troyes
Period	26.6.17 → 30.6.17

Keywords

Caregiving
Design opportunities
Healthcare
ICT
Nursing homes
Work practices

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Software

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Design considerations to support nursing homes' communities. / Di Fiore, Angela; Ceschel, Francesco; Nurgalieva, Leysan; Marchese, Maurizio; Casati, Fabio.

C and T 2017 - 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Conference Proceedings. Vol. Part F128532 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2017. p. 64-67.

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Di Fiore, A, Ceschel, F, Nurgalieva, L, Marchese, M & Casati, F 2017, Design considerations to support nursing homes' communities. in C and T 2017 - 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Conference Proceedings. vol. Part F128532, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 64-67, 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies: Technologies for the Common Good, C and T 2017, Troyes, France, 26.6.17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3083671.3083695

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