期刊名称:International Journal of Ageing and Later Life
印刷版ISSN:1652-8670
出版年度:2022
卷号:15
期号:2
页码:23-50
DOI:10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.3541
语种:English
出版社:Linkoping University Electronic Press
摘要:Digital technologies have become essential components in the organisation and delivery of elder care. With this article, we want to contribute to the study and discussion of the role and effects of monitors and telecare solutions in situated care practices. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among elderly citizens and healthcare workers in Denmark during the early phases of the corona crisis, we explore the introduction of screen-based technologies in eldercare and their implications. Our focus is particularly on what health professionals must do, to accomplish meaningful encounters through screens. In this context, we introduce the concept of “window work” to highlight how screens are active participants in care and how they frame and delimit what health practitioners can see, do and achieve in everyday care practices in significant and often unpredictable ways.