New social intervention technologies as a challenge in social work: IFSW Europe perspective

Lavié, Alfredo Hidalgo; Fernández, Ana Isabel Lima

doi:10.1080/13691457.2018.1423553

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“…As a preview study has shown (e.g., Hidalgo-Lavié & Lima-Fernández, 2018), technology is seen as a positive for management and administrative tasks. The negative stereotypes about technology are overcome when technology reduces bureaucratic burdens, facilitates contact with family carers, and improves coordination among professionals.…”

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“…One of the main concerns of social workers in Spain is the bureaucratization of social work and care work (Hidalgo-Lavié & Lima-Fernández, 2018;Viscarret, Ballestero, Idareta, & Úriz, 2016). Social workers, who are in charge of implementing social care, face a double mandate.…”

Section: Challenges Of Digitalization In Care and Social Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite the challenges of digitalization that we have described, particularly the need for professionals to know how to use digital technologies, the International Federation of Social Work is fostering the use of digital technologies among professionals (Hidalgo-Lavié & Lima-Fernández, 2018). This trend is occurring in the context of established eGovernment practices boosted by the European Commission and DG Connect (EC, 2016b(EC, , 2017.…”

Section: Challenges Of Digitalization In Care and Social Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…2. Nevertheless, one of the main concerns about using smartphones and social media for professional purposes is whether privacy can be guaranteed (Antheunis, Tates, & Nieboer , 2013;Hidalgo-Lavié & Lima-Fernández, 2018).…”

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Professional stakeholders' views of the use of digital technologies in Spanish long-term care

Deusdad¹,

Riccò²

2018

Human Technology

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Demographic change in Europe has resulted in an aging population, which presents new challenges for implementing and managing long-term care (LTC) systems. One solution aims to increase the efficiency of LTC by using digital technologies. This article focuses on professionals' opinions of the use of digital technologies in the administration of Spain's long-term care law (Law 39/2006, December 14, LAPAD). This qualitative research is part of SoCaTel, an H2020 project on the co-creation of LTC services in Europe. Ten focus groups were held with health professionals, care-taking relatives, and care workers, and six semistructured in-depth interviews were conducted with care recipients in Catalonia, Spain. This article presents the data collected from professionals. Professionals reacted positively to the use of digital technologies, in contrast to some previous studies that highlight professionals' strong resistance to digitalization. Professionals saw digitalization as a way to speed up and simplify administrative processes. However, they also identified serious obstacles to efficient digitalization.

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Section: Challenges Of Digitalization In Care and Social Servicesmentioning

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Professional stakeholders' views of the use of digital technologies in Spanish long-term care

Deusdad¹,

Riccò²

2018

Human Technology

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“…Identifying professionals' views will provide scholars and policymakers with essential information for improving services. Research on stakeholders use and practice of new technologies has been carried out recently in Spain (Hidalgo-Lavié & Lima-Fernández, 2018); our research goes a step further in offering a qualitative look at stakeholders' views of the use of digital technologies in eldercare, revealing their attitudes, their current practices, and opportunities for the future of eldercare.…”

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Human Technology

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Guest Editors' Introduction MORE YEARS, MORE TECHNOLOGIES: AGING IN THE DIGITAL ERA Today, people are enjoying longer lives, often without major disabilities (World Health Organization, 2015). For the disciplines of human and social sciences, the increased longevity opens a completely new horizon for investigating the role of new technologies in human lives; people living longer have many more years to experience increasingly frequent waves of innovation in technologies. Even though not all old people are active and independent users of digital technology, the amplitude of new devices, applications, and services targeted at a growing segment of older people is staggering. This special issue of Human Technology brings together six research articles that explore the role of digital health and communication technologies in later life. Amid the ongoing trends in aging, this area of research has been defined by the abundance of off-the-shelf products and emerging technologies, on the one hand, and a wide diversity in digital technology use among the older people on the other. Contemporary markets are targeting older consumers more than ever before (Gilleard, 2018). All sorts of traditional and new digital solutions-ranging from simple walking sticks and ergonomic chairs to senior phones, alarm pendants, and smart home and telecare systems-are available in the marketplace to facilitate successful aging and autonomous living, whether in institutional care, home-like environments, or at home. At the individual level, people's longer lives are influenced by and integrated with digital technologies to varying extents. Hence, it can be argued that the principle of aged heterogeneity (Nelson & Dannefer, 1992), proposing that old people constitute a more diverse group in terms of their physiological, psychological, social, and functional traits than young people, also manifests itself with respect to the adoption and use of digital technologies. Through research, the considerable variation in older people's personal

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