Balancing Autonomy and Security Over Geotracking Patients with Alzheimer's Using a Personalized Geotracking System with Social Support Network

Yüce, Yılmaz Kemal; Gülkesen, Kemal Hakan; Barçın, Ebru

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2012.06.150

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“…The ethical debate over electronic tracking of individuals with dementia has largely focused on the relationship between safety and autonomy . Autonomy, in the context of healthcare decision‐making, encompasses elements of self‐determination and the individual's values and beliefs .…”

Section: Ethical Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To ensure a balanced approach to addressing this looming challenge, many commentators advocate for a multidisciplinary strategy that evaluates electronic tracking technologies as one possible component of a holistic healthcare plan . Efforts to incorporate a social support network of individuals with dementia and caregivers into the process of product design may hold promise in this regard . Healthcare teams involved in the decision‐making process of whether to use tracking systems could include doctors, nurses, family members, and legal advisers, in addition to the individual with dementia .…”

Section: Significance Of Further Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The ethical debate over electronic tracking of individuals with dementia has largely focused on the relationship between safety and autonomy. 9 Autonomy, in the context of healthcare decision-making, encompasses elements of self-determination and the individual's values and beliefs. 10 The former invokes notions of self-control, freedom of choice, and self-rule, 7 whereas the latter provides a basis for making informed projections about courses of treatment consistent with the individual's wishes.…”

Section: Ethical Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…21 Efforts to incorporate a social support network of individuals with dementia and caregivers into the process of product design may hold promise in this regard. 9 Healthcare teams involved in the decision-making process of whether to use tracking systems could include doctors, nurses, family members, and legal advisers, in addition to the individual with dementia. 11 One proactive means of incorporating individual choice is to develop a care plan as early as possible to determine the individual's preference for the use of such monitoring devices.…”

Section: Significance Of Further Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Does the Shoe Fit? Ethical, Legal, and Policy Considerations of Global Positioning System Shoes for Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease

Yang

Kels

2016

J American Geriatrics Society

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As the overall incidence of Alzheimer's disease rises, the burden on caregivers and law enforcement institutions will increase to find individuals who wander. As such, technological innovations that could reduce this burden will become increasingly important. One such innovation is the GPS Shoe. As with any innovation involving the transfer of personal data to third parties, potential pitfalls with respect to loss of privacy and inadequate consent counterbalance the substantial promise of GPS shoes. To some extent, advance planning can mitigate these concerns, wherein individuals willingly elect to be monitored before their impairments progress to a stage that makes such authorization impractical. Nonetheless, tension may arise between the peace of mind of caregivers and family members and other important considerations at the intersection of autonomy, privacy, dignity, and consent. Ultimately, confronting ethical, legal, and policy considerations at the front end of product development and deployment will help ensure that new technologies are used wisely and that their lifesaving potential is realized.

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Section: Ethical Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Significance Of Further Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ethical Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Significance Of Further Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Does the Shoe Fit? Ethical, Legal, and Policy Considerations of Global Positioning System Shoes for Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease

Yang

Kels

2016

J American Geriatrics Society

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“…(3) With regard to increasing environmental awareness, app-based EMIs that incorporate GPS (e.g., Yüce et al, 2012 ; Hollett and Leander, 2013 ; Huang and Luo, 2014 ; Watkins et al, 2014 ), and utilize smartphone microphones and cameras, might be designed to notify individuals about aspects of their environment. In this way, app-based EMIs might be designed to raise awareness of contextual/situational triggers for responses that the individual desires to change as well as awareness of opportunities to respond in ways that are expressions of a virtue.…”

Section: Virtues and App-based Emimentioning

confidence: 99%

Virtues, ecological momentary assessment/intervention and smartphone technology

Runyan

Steinke

2015

Front. Psychol.

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Virtues, broadly understood as stable and robust dispositions for certain responses across morally relevant situations, have been a growing topic of interest in psychology. A central topic of discussion has been whether studies showing that situations can strongly influence our responses provide evidence against the existence of virtues (as a kind of stable and robust disposition). In this review, we examine reasons for thinking that the prevailing methods for examining situational influences are limited in their ability to test dispositional stability and robustness; or, then, whether virtues exist. We make the case that these limitations can be addressed by aggregating repeated, cross-situational assessments of environmental, psychological and physiological variables within everyday life—a form of assessment often called ecological momentary assessment (EMA, or experience sampling). We, then, examine how advances in smartphone application (app) technology, and their mass adoption, make these mobile devices an unprecedented vehicle for EMA and, thus, the psychological study of virtue. We, additionally, examine how smartphones might be used for virtue development by promoting changes in thought and behavior within daily life; a technique often called ecological momentary intervention (EMI). While EMA/I have become widely employed since the 1980s for the purposes of understanding and promoting change amongst clinical populations, few EMA/I studies have been devoted to understanding or promoting virtues within non-clinical populations. Further, most EMA/I studies have relied on journaling, PDAs, phone calls and/or text messaging systems. We explore how smartphone app technology provides a means of making EMA a more robust psychological method, EMI a more robust way of promoting positive change, and, as a result, opens up new possibilities for studying and promoting virtues.

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Who Is Responsible? A Man With Dementia Wanders From Home, Is Hit by a Train, and Dies

Young

Papenkov

Nakashima

2018

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

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Balancing Autonomy and Security Over Geotracking Patients with Alzheimer's Using a Personalized Geotracking System with Social Support Network

Cited by 9 publications

References 19 publications

Does the Shoe Fit? Ethical, Legal, and Policy Considerations of Global Positioning System Shoes for Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease

Does the Shoe Fit? Ethical, Legal, and Policy Considerations of Global Positioning System Shoes for Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease

Virtues, ecological momentary assessment/intervention and smartphone technology

Who Is Responsible? A Man With Dementia Wanders From Home, Is Hit by a Train, and Dies

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