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ELIZABETH HANSON AND LENNART MAGNUSSON, Swedish National Care Competence centre

The role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) support services to promote ageing in place – the ACTION service. ELIZABETH HANSON AND LENNART MAGNUSSON, Swedish National Care Competence centre. What’s ACTION?.

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ELIZABETH HANSON AND LENNART MAGNUSSON, Swedish National Care Competence centre

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  1. The role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) support services to promote ageing in place – the ACTION service ELIZABETH HANSON AND LENNART MAGNUSSON,Swedish National Care Competence centre

  2. What’s ACTION? • Assisting Carers using Telematics Interventions to meet Older Persons’ Needs • A carer and self-care support service to make everyday life easier and to support ’ageing in place’ • Based on relevant empirical research, practitioner ’know how’ and ’end-users’ experiences and preferences

  3. Policies driving ACTION? • Promoting ageing in place • Promoting social inclusion

  4. The ACTION service - families CARING PROGRAMS CALL CENTRE ACTION APPLICATION EDUCATION & SUPPORT

  5. Partnership working with care providers and practitioners • Awareness raising • Education • Introduction education • Certification programme • Supervision • Community of practice • Learning projects

  6. Evaluation results: Quality of Life • Bothfamilycarers and the older person theycare for: • feel less isolated • developinformal support networks with otherfamilies • consider that new technology is good to useproviding it is easy to understand, use and is of directbenefit to them in theircaring situation. • Familycarers: • feelmorecompetent and secure in theircaregivingrole • gainmorecontrol over theirindividualcaring situation • increasetheirselfconfidence in theirability to care • Professional carers: • experienceimprovedjobsatisfaction • seesignificantscope for futuredevelopment in the area • Care providers: • Reducedcarecosts with an averagesaving of 10.300 EUR/year(Magnusson et al, 2005; Magnusson & Hanson 2005, Hanson et al 2007a,b; Bergström et al, 2010).

  7. Contact details Elizabeth Hanson e-mail: elizabeth.hanson@anhoriga.se tel: +46703614846 Lennart Magnusson e-mail:lennart.magnusson@anhoriga.se tel: +46706302321 www.actioncaring.se

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