“ENDEA”: a case study of multidisciplinary practice in the development of assisted technologies for older adults in Ireland

Bailey, Cathy, Doyle, Julie, Squires, Susan, Scanaill, Cliodhna, Fan, Chie Wei, Sheehan, Cormac, Cunningham, Clodagh and Dromey, Ben (2011) “ENDEA”: a case study of multidisciplinary practice in the development of assisted technologies for older adults in Ireland. Journal of Assistive Technologies, 5 (3). pp. 101-111. ISSN 1754-9450

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Abstract

This paper seeks to discuss the authors' experiences of multidisciplinary practice in relation to developing home-based assisted living technologies. The paper draws on almost three years' experience of working within an ongoing, large, multi-sited and multidisciplinary Irish national research programme: the Technology for Independent Living Centre. This involved industry and academic partners. Teams of clinicians, physical and social scientists, technologists, engineers, designers and ethnographers worked with older adults to design, test and deliver, home-based technologies that focus on mitigating falls, keeping socially connected and maintaining or improving cognitive function. The authors' experiences and challenges are organised and presented through their retrospective team building model: ENDEA and through comparison with team building literature.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	assisted living technologies, older adults
Subjects:	B700 Nursing B900 Others in Subjects allied to Medicine
Department:	Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing
Depositing User:	EPrint Services
Date Deposited:	19 Oct 2011 11:19
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 15:25
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/3522

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