Ageing with telecare: Care or coercion in austerity?

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 799-812

  Mort, Maggie ^a   Roberts, Celia ^a   Callén, Blanca ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Fundacio and oacute n Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ageing; Austerity; Coercion; Independence; Technogenarians; Technology

Indexed keywords

ADVISORY COMMITTEE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUSTERITY; CONSUMER; ECONOMIC RECESSION; EQUIPMENT; ETHICS; GERIATRIC NURSING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDEPENDENCE; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; NORWAY; ORGANIZATION; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SPAIN; STANDARD; TECHNOGENARIANS; TECHNOLOGY; TELEMEDICINE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGEING; AUSTERITY; COERCION; INDEPENDENCE; TECHNOGENARIANS; TECHNOLOGY;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; AGED; AGING; COERCION; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; ECONOMIC RECESSION; GERIATRIC NURSING; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; NORWAY; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SPAIN; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84880510937     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01530.x     Document Type: Article

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