This widely researched study demonstrates convincingly that neither grandiose promises
nor nightmare scenarios have much to do with actual care practices employing telecare …

Winner of the British Sociological Association Foundation for the Sociology of Health and
Illness Book Prize, 2012. This book traces the changes in healthcare implicated in telecare …

Nurses and ethicists worry that the implementation of care at a distance or telecare will
impoverish patient care by taking out 'the heart'of the clinical work. This means that telecare …

The provision of 'distant'care to older people living at home through telecare technologies is
often contrasted negatively to hands-on, face-to-face care: telecare is seen as a loss of care …

Background Introduction of telehealth into the healthcare setting has been recognised as a
service that might be experienced as disruptive. This paper explores how this disruption is …

In governmental and technical discourses, telecare systems are described as a solution to
the 'problem'of aging populations. This paper draws on an ongoing ethnography of the …

The emergence of the field of health care at a distance, or “telehealth,” has been embedded
within discourses of high ambition about health improvement, seamless services …

Shifting the balance of care towards home and community is viewed as requiring
interventions which enhance or complement primary care. Technologybased interventions …

The use of technology in delivery of health care services is rapidly increasing, and more
nurses are using telehealth to provide care by distance to persons with complex health …

Abstract Title. Real nursing? The development of telenursing Aim. This paper is a report of a
study to understand the impact of telenursing from the perspective of nurses involved in its …