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EFORTT Events Archive
Our final conference was held in the beautiful historic
Casa de la Convalescencia, BARCELONA
13th and 14th September 2010
Ageing with technologies: a participative conference on care in Europe
What counts as care? Who designs, who decides?
Changing spaces of care
Developments in telecare (the provision of health and social care at a distance) are rapidly evolving, with information and communication technologies (ICT) covering an increasing range of care practices. But are these interventions occurring in a social and ethical vacuum, as if they are neutral and value free? Should we not take time to consider the ethical and social implications of technological interventions for older citizens, caregivers and health-care systems? This conference provides a space for critical exploration of these issues by practitioners, system users, scholars and policymakers concerned with ageing and technology. Over two days, we will exchange experiences and debate the actual and possible consequences of telecare developments, for users, carers and health care systems in Europe. Drawing on the findings of the EC FP7 project EFORTT (Ethical Frameworks for Telecare Technologies for older people at home), the event will include plenary and workshop discussions organised around three main themes:
What counts as care? Who designs, who decides?
Changing spaces of care
Each theme will begin with a brief presentation from the EFORTT Project which will act as a frame within which guest-speakers will respond and offer their own perspective, leading to a general debate about the topic. Workgroup discussions then follow to enable diverse experiences and proposals to emerge, closing with a ‘summary of the day'. At the end of the conference rapporteurs will sum up the different proposals and priorities for future action on telecare in Europe to be drawn together in a written report circulated later to all participants.
http://psicologiasocial.uab.es/efortt_conference
SENIOR Final Conference
Conference Centre Albert Borschette (Room 1D)
Rue Froissart 36, 1040 Brussels - 27 November
Registration form and agenda:
http://seniorproject.eu/docs/senior_final_conference.pdf
Knowledge sharing for co-inquiry
A workshop to explore participation, engagement and co-operative research in the context of the EU FP7's latest call under its Science in Society programme
Monday, 7 September 2009
from 09.30 to 15.45
Research Beehive, Room 2.21, Old Library Building
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- Closely following the launch of the European Commission's call for proposals under its FP7 Science in Society (SiS) Programme 2010, this workshop will be an early opportunity for those based in universities, research institutes and wider society to discuss the potential for the programme. Kevin Walsh, who jointly oversees SiS for the Commission's DG Research, will provide a briefing on the Programme.
- Other contributors will explore aspects of work in previous SiS and related EU programmes, both from the perspective of those co-ordinating projects, civil society participants and those critically evaluating these and similar initiatives from a distance.
- The event is hosted by the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences (PEALS) Research Centre which has long been involved in pioneering co-operative approaches to research with grassroots community groups. People involved in the community groups and initiatives in the North East of England, including those with whom PEALS has worked in the context of European policy-making, will also be contributing.
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/Ageing/index.htm
10 - 11 September 2009
Newcastle University
This symposium will promote discussion on ageing with particular attention to what embodiment means and entails in the context of older age. While social gerontology is an established and productive field of research, less prominent has been the careful sociological and anthropological attention paid to the experience of ageing, embodiment, and subjectivity. A small but growing number of scholars have been working at this point of intersection, but research in this area remains fractured and disparate. Furthermore, the attention that is generally paid in social science to embodiment usually relates to youth and middle age rather than in relation to the ageing body.
This meeting is an opportunity to bring social scientists working on such questions of ageing together to discuss their research, and seeks to open new space to consider the theoretical possibilities suggested by their work. In particular, the meeting seeks to bring together recent sociological and anthropological work investigating ageing and the body with colleagues working in medicine and assistive technology.
'The road to welfare technology'
This Conference in Copenhagen (June 10-11, 2009), is organized by the Danish Technological Institute. The Danish state is spending 3 billion Danish kroner on the development and implementation on welfare technology in the period 2009-2015. The focus of this conference will be on the experiences with welfare technology so far, new developments and challenges. There will be a mix of speakers, some representing technological innovation and others with hands-on experience from welfare technology in care.
http://www.teknologisk.dk/uddannelser/25763,2
TeleMed & eHealth '08
Monday 24 - Tuesday 25 November 2008
http://www.rsm.ac.uk/telemed08/index.htm
Conference Aims and Objectives
Optimising patient centred care is seen by patients,government and healthcare providers as a way of improving both healthcare outcomes and patient satisfaction.
- eHealth technologies have the potential to play a key role in this process. TeleMed & eHealth 2008 will explore the opportunities and challenges surrounding their introduction.
Key Issues
- The state of the evidence base on the potential effectiveness of these technologies
- Their ease of use
- How they can be integrated into mainstream care services
- The financial implications of their adoption
Ethics and E-inclusion workshop, Slovenia 12 May 2008
Topics for workshops (MS Word .doc, 52kb)
Ethics and E-inclusion Workshop Programme (MS Word .doc, 157kb)
Telecare: Dialogue and Debate –
The emergence of new technologies and responsibilities for healthcare at home in Europe
Utrecht: 20 - 21 September 2007
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/ihr/events/utrechtTelecare.html
New and emerging ‘care technologies' are the visible, material signs of attempts to solve a range of health related problems in Western economies. In particular, given the current and projected growth of those in the older age groups and policies aimed at ‘aging in place', telecare technologies are being promoted to support the care needs (or perceived needs) of frail older people within the domestic environment. A spectrum of care technologies from responsive to preventive based on information and communication technology (ICT) exists or is being developed to provide ‘care at a distance'.
The conference objective was to open up a critical space for participants involved in the design, development, implementation and daily use of telecare technologies across Europe. Participation consisted of an audience and speakers drawn from clinicians, designers of new care technologies, older people and carers, as well as health policy makers operating at national and European levels.
Our aim was to identify ways in which knowledge can be exchanged and developed across and within different groups for whom these issues are of interest. We also identified issues within this field of interest which have had, to date, received only limited attention.
The event was also an opportunity to foster new collaborations for developing research, effective practice and policy-making.
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