I saw this today http://new.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/article/default.aspx?objid=69866 and I just can’t help but notice what a fundamentally contradictory thing it is that cutting edge technologies help people whom I hope I may inoffensively describe as ‘past the point of advancement’.
In our role as a solutions developer for people with dementia, and in creating an appropriate environment to live in. Take our #reminiscence image library for example we look back into our past and to a technologically more simple era. Yet here we are with telecare, social media, electronic tracking and many other technology-based approches being used to maintain and improve life for people with dementia.
I don’t have a point as such, except to say that perhaps we should just be mindful not to allow ourselves to get over-excited about the capabilities of new technology, and make sure we don’t forget who we are looking after and how all these things may look to them.
Proceed with caution…?
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