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Prevention of Falls Network Europe – ProFaNE

La red europea ProFaNE (Prevention of Falls Network Europe) se dedica al estudio de la prevención de caídas en personas mayores y la mejora de la estabilidad postural, en la que participan muy diferentes profesionales del cuidado y desarrolladores tecnológicos.

“ProFaNE is a thematic network with 25 partners focusing on the issue of prevention of falls and improvement of postural stability amongst elderly people. It comprises 4 workpackages

1. Taxonomy and Classification
2. Clinical Assessment and Management
3. Assessment of Balance Function
4. Psychological Aspects of Falling.

The aim is to bring together workers from around Europe to focus on a series of tasks required to develop multi-factorial prevention programmes aimed at reducing the incidence of falls and fractures amongst elderly people.

The work of ProFaNE is practical.

It will advance science by network development and collaboration, but it will also aim to change health care procedures to introduce best practice widely across Europe.”

Actualización de 2012: la antigua red ha caído y ha sido sustituida por esta NUEVA PÁGINA WEB

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Proyecto NetCarity

Página web del proyecto NetCarity, financiado por la Unión Europea

“Netcarity is a European project researching and testing technologies which will help older people to improve their wellbeing, independence, safety and health at home.

Participants include academics, technology firms, psychologists, sociologists, carers, designers and regional authorities.

The project is investigating how new and existing technologies can be integrated cost effectively into people’s homes, making them feel more comfortable about remaining in this familiar environment. It is developing and testing a new technology infrastructure for homes, with systems that enhance communication with friends, family and care givers; support everyday living and promote a sense of social inclusion. It will encourage older people to live independently and inspire them to be more socially active. Netcarity’s goal is to turn older peoples’ homes into supportive environments which include them in society and postpone or avoid the expensive and traumatic move into care homes”

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ICT Results – SensAction-ALL “Technological safety net for fall-prone elderly”

La web de la Unión Europea ICT Results recoge la información sobre el proyecto SensAction-ALL, cuyo objetivo es “to assist older people in maintaining independent mobility and daily life activities and prevent injuries by introducing smart body fixed sensor-based technology that allows medical professionals to initiate interventions in the home environment”.

Por lo visto no sólo se usa para personas mayores en sus hogares, sino que también pueden hacer uso de ello deportistas, según indican en este otro comunicado de prensa

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El País – El color de la compañía es el rojo

En la sección de Andalucía de El País se incluye un artículo que resume las condiciones de la teleasistencia en esta Comunidad Autónoma, en el que nuevamente aparece la categorización de sus empleados como “ángeles”.

Sin embargo, más allá de los datos andaluces, lo que me ha llamado la atención especialmente para reflexionar es el hecho de que muchas personas mayores respondan ante un servicio público, en muchos casos gestionado por empresas con ánimo de lucro, enviando regalos y comida como muestra de su agradecimiento.

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El Mundo – Ángeles custodios al otro lado de la línea

Una extensa noticia y un vídeo de El Mundo sobre la teleasistencia del Ayuntamiento de Madrid, con interesantes comentarios de lectores

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MAPFRE lanza la campaña ‘Con Mayor Cuidado’

La campaña CON MAYOR CUIDADO de MAPFRE nace con el ánimo de estimular y propiciar la prevención de accidentes en los hogares de aquellas personas mayores que desean mantener su independencia y autonomía personal.

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Telegraph – Mobility scooters to be fitted with tracking technology to prevent users getting lost

Una noticia del periódico británico Telegraph sobre la implantación de tecnología GPS para que los usuarios de scooters para personas con movilidad reducida puedan ser encontradas si se pierden

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Dwelling the Telecare Home: Place, Location and Habitality

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Article recently published in Space & Culture, 12(3): 343-358  

Dwelling the Telecare Home: Place, Location and Habitality

(co-written with Daniel López)

Abstract

Home has become a newly fostered place for care giving in what might be called anaging in place paradigm. As a result, thinking about how the home’s spatialities are configured and how they might transform caring has become an important issue for the social sciences. This article is a contribution to this line of thought and looks at being-at-home from a non-anthropocentric point of view. By focusing on the telecare cases of an ongoing ethnographic project and drawing on Heideggerian insights on dwelling and place, we coin the term habitality. We think this term is useful for two purposes: (1) to think about the home as a materially heterogeneous set of spatialities and subjectivities and (2) to understand being-at-home not as a way of living in an enclosed and protected shelter of routine activities, but as a way of combining those spatialities and subjectivities and the differences (and oddities) they might bring.

Full text: PDF

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I Congreso anual REPS 2009 sobre el Estado del Bienestar en España

Recientemente tuvo lugar en Oviedo el I Congreso anual REPS 2009 sobre el Estado del Bienestar en España. En su web se puede acceder a todas las ponencias y comunicaciones, como el Panel 11 “Estado de Bienestar y Cuidados: entre el modelo familista, la institucionalización y la desnacionalización del cuidado”

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Whole System Demonstrators – Department of Health, UK

El Department of Health del Reino Unido está evaluando, a través de un proyecto de dos años titulado Whole System Demonstrators en el que se realizan diferentes pruebas piloto de tecnologías, la potencialidad de la implantación de diferentes ayudas técnicas y sistemas digitales de telecuidado (ya sean para aplicaciones sanitarias o de servicios sociales).