Technology in the Home Care of Older People : Views from Finland and Ireland

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Autobiographical Memory, Senses and Phenomenology: Traumatic Memories in Former Soldiers and Veterans of the Malvinas War

Desde la psicología cognitiva, la memoria autobiográfica se encuentra implicada en tareas de consolidación, evocación y olvido de información personal y episodios de vida. Los recuerdos autobiográficos conformados a partir de vivencias traumáticas, tales como un combate bélico, asumirían propiedades distintivas. El objetivo del trabajo fue analizar las características principales presentes en auto-reportes escritos de ex-combatientes y veteranos hombres de la Guerra de Malvinas respecto de vivencias traumáticas ocurridas durante el combate. El estudio, de tipo exploratorio cualitativo, adscribió al paradigma interpretativo bajo los principios de la teoría fundamentada en los hechos, utilizando un muestreo teórico intencionado. Fueron analizados de modo descriptivo, axial y selectivo 141 formularios. Se identificaron 3 grupos de categorías emergentes del discurso: componentes fenomenológicos, muerte/riesgo de muerte y perdurabilidad. El entrecruzamiento de los aspectos cognitivos y temporales pone en evidencia, a modo de categoría central, el sentido de vigencia que para ex-combatientes y veteranos asumen las vivencias reportadas. Se sugiere la implementación de intervenciones de carácter psicosocial orientadas al reconocimiento de los recuerdos traumáticos en pos de su integración al relato colectivo de Malvinas.According to cognitive psychology, autobiographical memory is involved in tasks associated with consolidating, evoking, and forgetting personal life episodes. Autobiographical memories formed from traumatic experiences, such as military combat, are thought to assume distinctive properties. The study aims to analyze the written reports of former male combatants and veterans regarding traumatic events experienced during the Falklands War. An exploratory and qualitative study was conducted based on the interpretive paradigm of grounded theory and using purposive theoretical sampling. Descriptive, axial, and selective methods were employed to analyze 141 written forms. Three groups of emergent categories were identified based on the respondents’ discourse: phenomenological components, death/death risk, and permanence. The combination of cognitive and temporal aspects stresses, as the central category, how current the experiences reported are for ex-combatants and veterans. The authors suggest the implementation of psychosocial interventions aimed at the recognition of these traumatic memories, so that they can be incorporated into the collective narrative of the Falklands War.Fil: Lolich, Maria. Ministerio de Defensa. Ejército Argentino. Instituto de Enseñanza Superior del Ejército. Centro de Investigaciones Sociales y Humanas para la Defensa; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Paly, Gisela Liliana. Ministerio de Defensa. Ejército Argentino. Instituto de Enseñanza Superior del Ejército. Centro de Investigaciones Sociales y Humanas para la Defensa; ArgentinaFil: Nistal, Mara Alicia. Ministerio de Defensa. Ejército Argentino. Instituto de Enseñanza Superior del Ejército. Centro de Investigaciones Sociales y Humanas para la Defensa; ArgentinaFil: Becerra, Luciana. Ministerio de Defensa. Ejército Argentino. Instituto de Enseñanza Superior del Ejército. Centro de Investigaciones Sociales y Humanas para la Defensa; ArgentinaFil: Azzollini, Susana Celeste. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Ministerio de Defensa. Ejército Argentino. Instituto de Enseñanza Superior del Ejército. Centro de Investigaciones Sociales y Humanas para la Defensa; Argentin

Fortunate and fearful: Emotions evoked by home care policies for older people in Ireland

This article examines the emotions of fear and feeling fortunate experienced by key actors in home care services in Ireland. We take a relational approach to emotions, that is to say, an understanding that emotions are produced in social interactions and play an essential part in how people engage with, and respond to long-term care policies. The study involved focus groups and in-depth interviews with 104 participants. Our findings show that the most vulnerable participants, service users and care workers on precarious contracts, feel fortunate or fearful about outcomes that had or would have a direct impact on them: having a good carer and obtaining job satisfaction; or losing a home care package and not having enough work. Professionals were more likely to speak about luck and fear not in relation to what could happen to them directly but in relation to the fate of service users and care workers. The unregulated home care services in Ireland have influenced actors to construe their own and others? participation in the system as increasingly individualized, where desired outcomes depend on one?s good luck or strong personal relationships. For the system to work properly trust needs to be present not only at the micro level of individual relationships but also at a system level. This could lead to a decline in emotions that centre around feeling fortunate and fearful, and an increase in expressions of trust and a sense of control by both care providers and care recipients

No Choice without Care: Palliative Care as a Relational Matter, the Case of Ireland

In recent years, choice and autonomy have been prioritized as key quality indicators in palliative care services. This article examines current palliative care discourses with respect to patient choice. While recognizing the importance of personal autonomy, using evidence from Ireland, this article explores how a discourse on choice can contribute to inequalities in palliative care because it fails to take account of pre-existing structural inequalities, human relationality, and bodily decline. This article proposes a relational approach to care that takes account not only of the relational lives in those in need of care but also of their careers.Health Research BoardAll Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care - Social Justice Projec

Embracing technology? Health and Social Care professionals\u27 attitudes to the deployment of e-Health initiatives in elder care services in Catalonia and Ireland,

Professionals in both regions have a positive attitude towards the use of e-health as a supportive tool. Technology is seen as way of reducing administrative burden and improving information exchange. Professionals expressed concerns about technology as a substitute for face-to-face contact. Training on ICT and change management procedures should accompany e-health initiatives. Lack of system integration between different providers is a major barrier to meaningful use of technology in care services

“These devices have not been made for older people's needs” – Older adults' perceptions of digital technologies in Finland and Ireland

This article examines how older adults use and perceive digital technologies in Finland and Ireland. These two countries are at different stages regarding two important global trends – demographic ageing and digitalization. Finland, being the fastest ageing society in Europe, is also one of the leaders in implementing digital technologies in social and health care services. In contrast, Ireland is a demographically younger and less digitalized society. Drawing on focus group discussions on the usage of digital technologies, conducted with older adults in both countries, we analyse how digital technologies are adopted and viewed by older generations. The analyses showed that older adults associate digitalization with both advantages and drawbacks. To encapsulate these two contrasting aspects, we developed the term Janus-faced conceptions of technology. This concept encapsulates how the successful adoption of digital technology facilitates everyday activities whereas the inability to utilise technologies results in feelings of alienation and being out-of-touch. The digital divide was found to occur not only between generations but also between different socioeconomic groups of older adults.publishedVersionPeer reviewe

Personality characteristics of combatants and veterans from Malvinas’ war

El trabajo analiza las características de personalidad de excombatientes y veteranos de la guerra de Malvinas con el fin de obtener datos de utilidad para la intervención terapéutica. Se realizó un estudio descriptivo y transversal con el objetivo de analizar los resultados del MMPI-2 (adaptación argentina, Casullo, 1999) correspondientes a 44 veteranos y 96 ex combatientes consultantes del Centro Salud de las Fuerzas Armadas “Veteranos de Malvinas”, dependiente del Ministerio de Defensa. Los resultados indican que ambos grupos tienden a la exageración de malestar, refiriendo fuertes sentimientos de ansiedad, sensaciones de descontrol ego-cognitivo y emocional, problemas interpersonales, síntomas de depresión y una fuerte orientación paranoide. Presentan perfiles comunes con la clínica, señalando dificultades severas en el ajuste psicológico. Las diferencias entre grupos indican que los excombatientes tienden a expresar más abiertamente que los veteranos los sentimientos de tensión, evidenciando también mayor propensión a los conflictos con la autoridad y con el entorno.This work analyzes the personality characteristics of combatants and veterans from Malvinas´ war with the aim of gathering useful data for therapeutic intervention. We realized a descriptive and cross-sectional study with the objective to analyze the results of MMPI-2 (Argentinean adaptation, Casullo, 1999) by 44 veterans and 96 ex-combatants –all from Centro Salud de las Fuerzas Armadas “Veteranos de Malvinas”, dependent of the Defense Ministry–. The results points that both groups tend to exaggerate the discomfort, reporting strong anxiety feelings, loss of ego-cognitive and emotional control sensation, interpersonal issues, depression symptoms and a strong paranoid orientation. They present common profiles with clinic area, also pointing out severe difficulties on the psychological adjustment. The differences between these two groups show that former combatants tend to express more openly their stress feelings than veterans, making evident also a higher inclination to authority and environment conflicts.Fil: Azzollini, Susana Celeste. Ministerio de Defensa. Ejército Argentino. Instituto de Enseñanza Superior del Ejército. Centro de Investigaciones Sociales y Humanas para la Defensa; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Becerra, Luciana. Ministerio de Defensa. Ejército Argentino. Instituto de Enseñanza Superior del Ejército. Centro de Investigaciones Sociales y Humanas para la Defensa; ArgentinaFil: Paly, Gisela Liliana. Ministerio de Defensa. Ejército Argentino. Instituto de Enseñanza Superior del Ejército. Centro de Investigaciones Sociales y Humanas para la Defensa; ArgentinaFil: Lolich, Maria. Ministerio de Defensa. Ejército Argentino. Instituto de Enseñanza Superior del Ejército. Centro de Investigaciones Sociales y Humanas para la Defensa; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin

Vulnerabilidad, pobreza y políticas sociales. Abanico de sentidos en América Latina, Europa y China.

Resumen: Vulnerabilidad, pobreza y políticas sociales parecen tres conceptos entrelazados en la noción de falta o escasez y suelen utilizarse, en no pocas oportunidades, como sinónimo, aunque desde sus definiciones no lo son. Entonces, ¿qué tienen en común?\nEntre distancias y cercanías, convergencias y divergencias analíticas y disciplinares, el presente libro tiene como objetivo discutir/ analizar los modos de definir e intervenir la vulnerabilidad, la pobreza y las políticas sociales desde una mirada crítica en clave de algunos componentes de las sensibilidades sociales que se cruzan con los procesos de estructuración sociales desde Argentina, Colombia, México, China, España, Francia, Irlanda e Italia.Fil: Bidiña, Ana. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; Argentina.Fil: De Sena, Angélica. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani; Argentina.Fil: Marimón Llorca, Carmen. Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filología Española; España.Fil: Vermot, Cécile. Universidad de París Descartes; Francia.\nFil: Truda, Giovanna. Universidad de Salerno. Departamento de Ciencias Políticas y Comunicación; Italia.Fil: Valencia González, Gloria Clemencia. Universidad Católica de Manizales. Doctorado en Educación Universitaria; Colombia.Fil: Bifulco, Lavinia. Universidad de Milán-Bicocca. Departamento de Sociología e Investigación Social; Italia.Fil: Xiaoke, LI. Universidad de Estudios Internacionales de Shanghái; China.Fil: Lolich, Luciana. Trinity College Dublín, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Irlanda.Fil: Camarena Luhrs, Margarita. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; México.Fil: Quintero, Rodrigo Giraldo. Universidad de Manizales; Colombia.Fil: Man, YU. Universidad de Estudios Internacionales de\nShanghái, Facultad de Estudios Europeos y Latinoamericanos; Chin