Routledge Digital Transformations in Care for Older People: Critical Perspectives (Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness)

The book investigates digitalisation in care for older people by giving insight into service users’ and professionals’ opportunities to digital agency in the context of European welfare states. With a focus on service users and providers experiences of digital care, the contributions address the manifold and often contradictory consequences of active ageing policies and innovation programmes. To assess digital agency of older people, ageism and co-creation in the innovation processes as well the use of digital platforms are addressed, while care professionals’ digital agency is examined through empirical cases that focus on the interaction between human and non-human actors in long-term care services, the temporality and spatiality of care, and the organisational requirements for successful implementation of digital technologies. From a variety of conceptual and theoretical viewpoints, the chapters provide a comprehensive and timely overview of ways to address the phenomena of ageing and digitalisation. The book provides critical vantage points to academic readership, health and social care professionals, policymakers, other stakeholders as well as the general audience on the effects of digitalisation in care for older people. Review "Care for older people is stepping into a brave new digital world and Digital Transformations is among the very first books to address this ongoing metamorphosis. It does this head on, providing a sharp-eyed critical analysis of the emergence of digicare." Professor Teppo Kröger, University of Jyväskylä, Finland About the Author Helena Hirvonen, Ph.D., Adjunct Prof., is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland and a senior researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Research on Aging and Care at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Mia Tammelin, PhD., Adjunct Prof., is a Principal lecturer at Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences, School of Health and Social Studies and a Senior researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Research on Aging and Care at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Riitta Hänninen, Ph.D., is Cultural anthropologist who works as a senior researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Research on Aging and Care at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Eveline J.M. Wouters was Educated as a physician and epidemiologist and is a Professor at Fontys University of Applied Science, School of allied health professions and at Tilburg University, School of social and behavioural sciences, department of Tranzo, The Netherlands.