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Electronic Medication Dispensers Finding the Right Users – A Pilot Study in a Norwegian Municipality Home Care Service

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2016)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNISA,volume 9758))

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This paper presents the reports on a pilot study in Norway where electronic medication dispensers were tested by 16 elderly users, exploring the effects for both end users and the care service. There were large variations in the users’ individual perceptions of the dispenser. Persons with reduced eyesight or manual dexterity reported great personal benefits and increased feeling of independence and dignity. On the other hand, several patients stopped using the dispenser due to either cognitive challenges and/or feelings of insecurity. The home care service using electronic medication dispensers must take great care in finding the right users to increase probability of success, both for the user and the service.

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  1. Department of Instrumentation, SINTEF ICT, Pb. 124 Blindern, 0314, Oslo, Norway

    Ingrid S. Svagård & Elin S. Boysen

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  1. Ingrid S. Svagård
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Correspondence to Ingrid S. Svagård .

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  1. Institute Integriert Studieren, Universität Linz, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Rehabilitationswissenschaften, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Christian Bühler

  3. Masaryk University , Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penaz

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Svagård, I.S., Boysen, E.S. (2016). Electronic Medication Dispensers Finding the Right Users – A Pilot Study in a Norwegian Municipality Home Care Service. In: Miesenberger, K., Bühler, C., Penaz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9758. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41264-1_38

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