title: No Place Like Home? Surveillance and What Home Means in Old Age.
abstract: New surveillance technologies like those included in ambient assisted living - such as body-worn and passive environmental sensors, smart interfaces, and communications networks - are being developed to improve the security and safety of "at risk" older people, but ethical questions have been raised about the extent to which they compromise the rights and privacy of the people being monitored. The qualitative study we conducted was designed to help us understand the ways these novel surveillance technologies would influence individuals' everyday experiences of home. Participants felt new forms of surveillance would influence their sense of security, autonomy, and self-confidence, and would alter perceptions of home. The findings emphasize the need to improve our understanding of how ambient assisted living will affect the lives of those being monitored.
authors.affiliation: Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy,University of British Columbia.
authors.forename: W Ben
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Mortenson
authors.affiliation: Department of Gerontology,Simon Fraser University.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sixsmith
authors.affiliation: Department of Gerontology,Simon Fraser University.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Beringer
mesh_terms: D000061:Accidents, Home / Q000517:prevention & control; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D057187:Independent Living / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D018907:Privacy / Q000523:psychology; D011482:Protective Devices / Q000941:ethics*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D011788:Quality of Life; D012449:Safety; D017216:Telemedicine; D013686:Telemetry
keywords: Foucault; aging; ambient assisted living; autonomie; autonomy; communauté; community; logement assisté ambiant; surveillance; vieillissement