Observing the Work Practices of an Inter-professional Home Care Team: Supporting a Dynamic Approach for Quality Home Care Delivery

Amsha, Khuloud Abou; Lewkowicz, Myriam

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-06498-7_15

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“…Collaborative aspects of home care work have been previously studied (e.g. [3][4][5][6]). In most developed countries, including Belgium, less children are born and these countries' population mainly grow today due to a prolonged life expectancy [7] and immigration [8].…”

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“…checking blood glucose values, yearly eye examination, etc.) and (5) Lifestyle. In figure 2, for example, the care receiver indicated that she exercises daily (working in the garden and swimming), likes to drink a glass of wine during dinner (green section), but that she is uncertain about how this contradicts with taking her diabetes medication (blue section).…”

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Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Design

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This paper stresses the need for more research in the field of Participatory Design (PD) and in particular into how to design Health Information Technology (HIT) together with care providers and-receivers in multicultural settings. We contribute to this research by describing a case study, the 'Health-Cultures' project, in which we designed HIT for the context of home care of older people with a migration background. The Health-Cultures project is located in the city of Genk, Belgium, which is known for its multicultural population, formed by three historical migration waves of people coming to work in the nowadays closed coal mines. Via a PD approach, we studied existing means of dialogue and designed HIT that both care receivers and care providers in Genk can use in their daily exchanges between cultures in home care contexts. In discussing relevant literature as well as the results of this study, we point to the need and the ways of taking spatio-historical aspects of a specific healthcare situation into account in the PD of HIT to support multicultural perspectives on healthcare.

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