Ethical issues in the use of surveillance cameras to support ageing in place

Background and Objective: Surveillance technology allows family members to monitor older adults’ daily activities and their interaction with the home environment. In particular, video surveillance cameras and surveillance technology’s implementation raises critical ethical concerns due to their invasive and obtrusive nature. Thus, this paper aims to address the ethical issues regarding the use of video surveillance for older adults to age in place. Methods: A literature review is conducted using Springerlink, Sciencedirect, and PubMed Publications related to older adults’ care, ageing in place, and the use of surveillance technologies were included in this project. Results: A total of 19 publications met the inclusion criteria. Nine ethical issues emerged from the data: informed consent, privacy, conflict of interest, stigmatization and obtrusiveness, homogeneity among older adults, and imbalance relationship. These nine themes were further explored in respect to ethical principles, including autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice and fidelity) Conclusion: Although surveillance cameras can be invasive, well-grounded ethical thinking and proactive response help reduce the risk and ethical challenges associated with it. By examining the ethical issue in video surveillance, it helps to reflect and enhance the current legislation

Training and Embedding Cybersecurity Guardians in Older Communities

Older adults can struggle to access relevant community expertise when faced with new situations. One such situation is the number of cyberattacks they may face when interacting online. This paper reports on an initiative which recruited, trained, and supported older adults to become community cybersecurity educators (CyberGuardians), tasked with promoting cybersecurity best practice within their communities to prevent older adults falling victim to opportunistic cyberattacks. This initiative utilised an embedded peer-to-peer information dissemination strategy, rather than expert-to-citizen, facilitating the inclusion of individuals who would ordinarily be unlikely to seek cybersecurity information and thus may be vulnerable to cyberattacks. We report on ways the CyberGuardians used informal methods to create more aware communities, served as role models for behaviour change and indirectly improved their personal wellbeing. We discuss considerations for supporting CyberGuardians, including implications for sustainability and for replicating this model in other digital contexts, e.g., recognising misinformation or improving mental health

Awareness of cyber fraud in the field of banking services in the example elderly of Ida-Virumaa

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A tecnologia tem idade?: o uso de tecnologia por parte de pessoas idosas, e o efeito da identificação com o grupo e da idade subjetiva na utilização de tecnologia

As sociedades estão a envelhecer, o que torna este um assunto relevante nos dias de hoje, assim como os avanços tecnológicos que se têm vindo a verificar ao longo dos tempos. O envelhecimento é acompanhado por várias mudanças físicas e psicológicas, sendo que a tecnologia tem potencial para melhorar a qualidade de vida das pessoas idosas. A população idosa apresenta pouca utilização destes recursos, tornando-se assim necessário compreender quais os motivos para tal. Dessa forma, o modelo de Aceitação de Tecnologias (TAM, Davis et al., 1989) é usualmente utilizado de modo a compreender quais são os fatores que influenciam a aceitação e o uso de tecnologias. Este modelo tem vindo a sofrer alterações, com a inclusão de outros fatores. A presente dissertação tem como objetivo compreender a influência de duas variáveis ainda não estudadas neste âmbito, sendo elas, a identificação com o grupo etário e a idade subjetiva. Desse modo, foram inquiridas 89 pessoas idosas, com idade igual ou superior a 65 anos. Os resultados demonstram que a população inquirida apresenta baixa utilização de tecnologias, e que a relação entre a identificação com o grupo etário e a intenção e uso efetivo de tecnologia é mediada pela autoeficácia relativa ao uso de tecnologia, e também pela perceção de facilidade de uso. No entanto, a idade subjetiva não tem um impacto significativo na aceitação e no uso de tecnologia. São ainda discutidos os resultados verificados na presente dissertação, à luz da literatura existente.Societies are aging, which makes this a relevant issue in nowadays, as well as the technological advances that have been verified over time. Aging is accompanied by various physical and psychological changes, and technology has the potential to improve the quality of life of older people. The elderly population has little use of these resources, making it necessary to understand the reasons for this. Therefore, the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM, Davis et al., 1989) is frequently used to understand what factors have influence the acceptance and use of technologies. This model has been changing with the inclusion of other factors. This dissertation aims to understand the influence of two variables not yet studied in this scope, namely, age-group identification and subjective age. Thus, 89 elderly people aged 65 and over were surveyed. The results show that the surveyed population has low use of technology, and the relationship between age-group identification and intention and effective use of technology is mediated by self-efficacy regarding technology use and also perceived ease of use. However, subjective age does not have a significant impact on technology acceptance and use. The results verified in this dissertation are also discussed, based on existing literature

A mixed methods approach to understanding cyber-security vulnerability in the baby boomer population

The ongoing development and ubiquitous spread of technology has brought with it new threats and opportunities for online victimisation. Although human factors cyber-security research continues to try to mitigate these threats through the application of behavioural science, some users, such as older adults, remain at particular risk of cyber-attacks, and yet remain heavily under-represented in the extant literature base. This thesis outlines a mixed methods approach to understanding older adult cyber-security vulnerability. The thesis began by identifying a range of technological changes that take place during the transition into retirement. Each of these changes offered avenues for subsequent cyber-security vulnerability. Through conducting a large-scale online survey in retired older adults, these retirement related factors were shown to be associated with engagement in risky online cyber-security behaviours. It was identified that the strongest predictor of these was an individual’s computer self-doubt. A second qualitative study found that older adults see cyber-security as a stressful subject and demonstrated both: the factors that influenced their confidence in relation to engaging in cyber-security behaviours, as well as their reasons for disengaging from cyber-security behaviours. A scale was developed to further understand older adult’s security related stress, which was applied to understand their coping behaviours when faced with a cyber-security challenge. This was effective at predicting older adults’ engagement in dysfunctional coping, highlighting how security stress might promote cyber-security vulnerability. Finally, the research applied the transactional theory of stress and coping to older adults’ cyber-security, demonstrating its effectiveness in predicting both dysfunctional and problem focussed coping strategies. The thesis provides new knowledge as to the factors which promote cyber-security vulnerability in older adults and outlines specific avenues as to how this vulnerability might manifest. Throughout this thesis, recommendations for policy makers, developers and future research are made and discussed in the context of existing literature