Moving beyond 'safety' versus 'autonomy': a qualitative exploration of the ethics of using monitoring technologies in long-term dementia care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Use of monitoring technologies (e.g. wearable or environmental sensors) in long-term care generates extensive ethical debate, primarily about their potential to enhance resident safety weighed against concerns about their impacts upon resident autonomy. There are a number of other ethical aspects which are far less debated, including questions about the monitoring of the workforce, and equality of access to technologies. In this paper, we explore the extent to which remote monitoring of the workforce, and equality of access to technologies, were seen to influence the implementation of monitoring technologies within long-term care facilities.

Methods

An embedded multiple-case study design was used with three dementia-specialist care facilities in England that had e

SUBMITTER: Hall A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6534927 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature