Window work: Screen-based eldercare and professional precarity at the welfare frontier
Digital technologies have become essential components in the organisation and delivery of elder care. With this article, we want to contribute to the study and discussion of the role and effects of monitors and telecare solutions in situated care practices. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among...
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2022-04-01
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| author | Kristina Grünenberg Line Hillersdal Jonas Winther |
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Digital technologies have become essential components in the organisation and delivery of elder care. With this article, we want to contribute to the study and discussion of the role and effects of monitors and telecare solutions in situated care practices. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among elderly citizens and healthcare workers in Denmark during the early phases of the corona crisis, we explore the introduction of screen-based technologies in eldercare and their implications. Our focus is particularly on what health professionals must do, to accomplish meaningful encounters through screens. In this context, we introduce the concept of “window work” to highlight how screens are active participants in care and how they frame and delimit what health practitioners can see, do and achieve in everyday care practices in significant and often unpredictable ways.
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| spelling | doaj.art-f3307d025d614fd1921184cd852773952022-12-22T00:08:18ZengLinköping University Electronic PressInternational Journal of Ageing and Later Life1652-86702022-04-0115210.3384/ijal.1652-8670.3541Window work: Screen-based eldercare and professional precarity at the welfare frontier Kristina Grünenberg0Line Hillersdal1Jonas Winther2a:1:{s:5:"en_US";s:19:"Associate Professor";}Assistant Professorprevious postdoc, Independent researcher Digital technologies have become essential components in the organisation and delivery of elder care. With this article, we want to contribute to the study and discussion of the role and effects of monitors and telecare solutions in situated care practices. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among elderly citizens and healthcare workers in Denmark during the early phases of the corona crisis, we explore the introduction of screen-based technologies in eldercare and their implications. Our focus is particularly on what health professionals must do, to accomplish meaningful encounters through screens. In this context, we introduce the concept of “window work” to highlight how screens are active participants in care and how they frame and delimit what health practitioners can see, do and achieve in everyday care practices in significant and often unpredictable ways. https://ijal.se/article/view/3541care workdigital technologieselder carescreenssenses |
| spellingShingle | Kristina Grünenberg Line Hillersdal Jonas Winther Window work: Screen-based eldercare and professional precarity at the welfare frontier International Journal of Ageing and Later Life care work digital technologies elder care screens senses |
| title | Window work: Screen-based eldercare and professional precarity at the welfare frontier |
| title_full | Window work: Screen-based eldercare and professional precarity at the welfare frontier |
| title_fullStr | Window work: Screen-based eldercare and professional precarity at the welfare frontier |
| title_full_unstemmed | Window work: Screen-based eldercare and professional precarity at the welfare frontier |
| title_short | Window work: Screen-based eldercare and professional precarity at the welfare frontier |
| title_sort | window work screen based eldercare and professional precarity at the welfare frontier |
| topic | care work digital technologies elder care screens senses |
| url | https://ijal.se/article/view/3541 |
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