Chapter 9. Liberating the Wanderers: Using Technology to Unlock Doors for those Living with Dementia
- Dr. Kelly Joyce Associate Professor1,
- Meika Loe Associate Professor2
Published Online: 25 AUG 2010
DOI: 10.1002/9781444391541.ch9
Copyright © 2010 The Authors
Book Title
Technogenarians
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How to Cite
Wigg, J. M. (2010) Liberating the Wanderers: Using Technology to Unlock Doors for those Living with Dementia, in Technogenarians (eds K. Joyce and M. Loe), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444391541.ch9
Editor Information
- 1
College of William and Mary, USA
- 2
Colgate University in New York, USA
Publication History
- Published Online: 25 AUG 2010
- Published Print: 17 SEP 2010
Book Series:
Book Series Editors:
- Hannah Bradby
Series Editor Information
Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781444333800
Online ISBN: 9781444391541
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Keywords:
- liberating the wanderers - technology to unlock doors for those living with dementia;
- exploring wandering behaviour in the United States - social construction, as a high risk activity results in locked doors;
- dementia diagnosis, specific neuropathological changes in individual's brain;
- key coded doors, in dementia care environments - protecting individuals from getting lost, injured, or death;
- aetiology of dementia, contested and unknown - syndrome, including ‘wandering’;
- physical restraints, pharmacological or chemical restraints - curbing wandering behaviours;
- technological interventions - locked doors or motion detectors;
- Pine Tree Place and Oceanside Vista - different models of long-term dementia care;
- Pine Tree Place, pathologisation of wandering - a legitimisation for locked doors;
- wandering as purposeful and therapeutic in long-term dementia care - being more elder-friendly environments of care
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction
Understanding wandering
Wandering as risky
Restraining or guiding wanderers: two models of intervention
Settings and methodologies
Technological interventions: locked doors or motion detectors?
The many faces of surveillance
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Note
References