Unit II Literature Review

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Dahler, A. M., Rasmussen, D. M., & Andersen, P. T. (2016). Meanings and experiences of assistive technologies in everyday lives of older citizens: A meta-interpretive review. Disability & Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 11(8), 619–629. https://doi-org.proxy1.ncu.edu/10.3109/17483107.2016.1151950

The purpose of this study was to synthesize the available qualitative studies on the meaning of assistive technologies (AT) in elderly people’s everyday lives in order to identify central concepts, themes, and findings from existing research (Dahler et al., 2016).

"A systematic search of the literature was conducted, using predetermined search strategies. Exclusion criteria were, in accordance with the meta-interpretive approach, developed iteratively during the reading of abstracts and articles. Interpretations from the studies were used as data for thematic analysis and synthesis of findings” (Dahler et al., 2016, p. 621)

Family-based geriatric autonomy

A review of these studies show that older people not only have positive attitude towards AT, but also that acceptance of technologies is a potentially stressful process where trust towards technologies and other people are of importance. Older people have ambivalent experiences with technology, as it gives rise to possibilities as well as constraints, and safety as well as worries. AT enact sometimes conflicting values related to self and society (Dahler et al., 2016)

"Although AT seem to support societal discourses on active aging, the empirical studies in this field show that the technologies enter older people’s lives in complex ways, enacting social values and ambivalences and interact with caretakers, relatives and other actors, within specific institutional settings" (Dahler et al., 2016, p. 628).

"An aim for future research could be to focus on how specific technologies structure interactions, in which older people take part, and also on how technologies and human actors constitute networks that enable or eventually do not enable various kinds of actions" (Dahler et al., 2016, p. 628).

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