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dc.contributor.authorStokke, Randi
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-14T12:25:28Z
dc.date.available2019-06-14T12:25:28Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationStokke, R. (2016). The Personal Emergency Response System as a Technology Innovation in Primary Health Care Services: An Integrative Review. J Med Internet Res, 18(7), e187.nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn1438-8871
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2600884
dc.description.abstractBackground: Most western countries are experiencing greater pressure on community care services due to increased life expectancy and changes in policy toward prioritizing independent living. This has led to a demand for change and innovation in caring practices with an expected increased use of technology. Despite numerous attempts, it has proven surprisingly difficult to implement and adopt technological innovations. The main established technological innovation in home care services for older people is the personal emergency response system (PERS), which is widely adopted and used throughout most western countries aiming to support “aging safely in place.” Objective: This integrative review examines how research literature describes use of the PERS focusing on the users’ perspective, thus exploring how different actors experience the technology in use and how it affects the complex interactions between multiple actors in caring practices. Methods: The review presents an overview of the body of research on this well-established telecare solution, indicating what is important for different actors in regard to accepting and using this technology in community care services. An integrative review, recognized by a systematic search in major databases followed by a review process, was conducted. Results: The search resulted in 33 included studies describing different actors’ experiences with the PERS in use. The overall focus was on the end users’ experiences and the consequences of having and using the alarm, and how the technology changes caring practices and interactions between the actors. Conclusions: The PERS contributes to safety and independent living for users of the alarm, but there are also unforeseen consequences and possible improvements in the device and the integrated service. This rather simple and well-established telecare technology in use interacts with the actors involved, creating changes in daily living and even affecting their identities. This review argues for an approach to telecare in which the complexity of practice is accounted for and shows how the plug-and-play expectations producers tend to generate is a simplification of the reality. This calls for a recognition that place and actors matter, as does a sensitivity to technology as an integrated part of complex caring practices.nb_NO
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjecthome care servicesnb_NO
dc.subjectcaring practicenb_NO
dc.subjectpersonal emergency alarm systemnb_NO
dc.subjectPERSnb_NO
dc.subjectsafety alarmnb_NO
dc.subjectsocial alarmnb_NO
dc.subjecttelecarenb_NO
dc.subjectreviewnb_NO
dc.titleThe Personal Emergency Response System as a Technology Innovation in Primary Health Care Services: An Integrative Reviewnb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.source.pagenumbere187nb_NO
dc.source.volume18nb_NO
dc.source.journalJournal of Medical Internet Researchnb_NO
dc.source.issue7nb_NO
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.5727


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