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Call-bells are often taken-for-granted systems to heighten safety. In joint discussions among residential care home (RCH) residents, their family members, and staff, issues related to call-bell use in everyday life and work were repeatedly raised. In this article, we explore these experience-based perspectives, addressing several key questions important for call-bell use and communication.
We inductively analyzed a series of individual interviews and group discussions with 44 individuals at two units of the same Swedish RCH, conducted as part of a participatory action research project to strengthen supportive end-of-life environments.
While the call-bell was a central part of RCH communication, we found: fragmented understanding about how the call bell functioned among all participants; many residents lacked the physical and cognitive competencies demanded for call-bell use; tensions between use of the call-bell for social/existential communication versus purely discrete tasks; and that a call-bell system assuming room-bound residents exacerbated issues related to varied response times, lack of feedback mechanisms, and pressured work situations.
Investigation of the call-bell system provides an empirical example of how complex relationships among stakeholders are played out in concrete situations. Tensions between different logics of care, and between clock and embodied time become evident.
Publicerad: 7 mars, 2022
Rapport 2024:3. Stiftelsen Äldrecentrum har följt upp Stockholms stads satsning på specialiserade hemtjänstgrupper, som genomfördes för att utveckla den personcentrerade vården och omsorgen för personer med demens. Kartläggningen rörde framför allt vilken kompetens som fanns i grupperna och hur de organiserade sitt arbete.
Rapport 2024:2. Stiftelsen Äldrecentrum har sammanställt registeruppgifter om äldre personer i Stockholms kommun med insatser från både hemtjänst och hemsjukvård för att beskriva vad som kännetecknar denna grupp. De visar sig över lag vara ett par år äldre, en högre andel kvinnor, ha sämre kognitiv förmåga och ett större behov av stöd i det dagliga livet, än de med enbart hemtjänst.
Everyday life in rural places can be hampered by many different infrastructural challenges for which technology is often considered a panacea. However, little is known about technological interactions among people living rurally with dementia, who more often live alone and make up a larger proportion of the rural population in England compared to urban.
