Automation, Wellbeing and Digital Voice Assistants: Older People and Google devices

2021 ◽  
pp. 135485652110385
Author(s):  
Melisa Duque ◽  
Sarah Pink ◽  
Yolande Strengers ◽  
Rex Martin ◽  
Larissa Nicholls
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
News Media ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Content Delivery ◽  
Ageing In Place ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Life Circumstances

Digital Voice Assistants (DVAs) like Google Home provide automated news, media and other content directly into the home. In this article, we outline how Google Home’s content delivery can support the wellbeing and independence of older people. We argue that automated media provided by DVAs enrols older people in a dialectic relationship with the automated content and feminised conversation they deliver, uniquely performed within people’s own everyday life circumstances. We demonstrate this by drawing on ethnographic insights generated during a trial of smart home technologies with older Australian households who are ‘ageing in place’ in regional New South Wales. For most participants, the trial was their first encounter with DVAs and the modes of media and content delivery including for music, news, weather, trivia, jokes, facts and images. While DVAs bring new experiences via content, communication and companionship, they are also subverted, ignored or transformed as people improvise to make them ‘fit’ within their homes and lives. These dynamics underpin how DVAs, automated content delivery and user’s interactions can support people’s sense of wellness and their independent daily practices at home.

Lake Mungo

1985 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Wright
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Health Worker ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Aboriginal Health ◽  
Aboriginal Child ◽  
South Wales ◽  
A Site ◽  
Aboriginal Health Worker

Lake Mungo, in New South Wales, is the home of the first known people in this country. Here, the oldest known evidence of Aboriginal people in Australia has been found. Because of its importance, it is a site which everyone should know about. To give us a feeling for Lake Mungo, Billy Reid, the illustrator of The Aboriginal Health Worker and The Aboriginal Child at School, came with me on a trip. We travelled west to the Darling River (whose Aboriginal name is Calewatta), and then south-east to Lake Mungo itself. Billy made wonderful drawings to represent the deeds and everyday life of those people. This can be reconstructed from the fossil evidence found at Lake Mungo. He has also drawn some scenes of life along the banks of the Calewatta - the river which is Billy’s own home. He hails from Bourke.

scholarly journals Dementia and intentional and unintentional poisoning in older people: a 10 year review of hospitalization records in New South Wales, Australia – CORRIGENDUM

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (12) ◽  
pp. 2101-2101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca J. Mitchell ◽  
Lara A. Harvey ◽  
Henry Brodaty ◽  
Brian Draper ◽  
Jacqueline C. T. Close
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Older People ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Aged Care ◽  
Typographical Error ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Aged Care Facilities

The authors would like to apologise for a typographical error in the abstract of the above mentioned article.In the results section of the abstract on the first page of the article, the first odds ratio that refers to ‘aged care facilities’ should be (OR 5.44; 95% CI 4.43–6.67) and the second odds ratio that refers to health service facilities should be (OR 4.56; 95%CI 4.06–5.13).

The epidemiology of hospitalised wrist fractures in older people, New South Wales, Australia

Bone ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 1144-1148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soufiane Boufous ◽  
Caroline Finch ◽  
Stephen Lord ◽  
Jacqueline Close ◽  
Todd Gothelf ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Wrist Fractures ◽  
South Wales

scholarly journals ‘I’ve got to be independent’: Views of older people on recovery  following road traffic injury in New South Wales, Australia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Brown ◽  
Ian D Cameron ◽  
Lisa Keay ◽  
Ha Nguyen ◽  
Lisa Dillon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Road Traffic Injury ◽  
Older Age ◽  
Traffic Injury ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related

Abstract Background: Mild to moderate road traffic injury (RTI) in people of working age is associated with limited recovery. Less is known about RTI recovery in older age. This study explored the perspectives and factors associated with recovery and health-related quality of life following mild to moderate RTI in older age in New South Wales, Australia. Methods: A qualitative study using content analysis was undertaken. Participants aged 65 or more years were purposively selected from a larger inception cohort study of health outcomes following mild to moderate RTI conducted in New South Wales, Australia. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken at approximately 12 or 24 months post-injury. Content analysis was used to code and analyse the data, with methodological rigour obtained by double-coding and discussing findings to reach consensus. Results were reported using the consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ). Results: Nineteen participants were invited to participate in the study of which 12 completed interviews. Data saturation was reached at the twelfth interview. Recovery experiences were diverse. Five main themes were identified: recovery is regaining independence; injury and disability in older age; the burden of non-obvious disability; the importance of support; and positive personal approaches. Key facilitators of recovery were: regaining independence; support from family and friends; and positive personal approaches. Key barriers were: threats to independence; passive coping behaviours; non-obvious disabilities (chronic pain, psychological impacts); and reluctance to raise ongoing issues with General Practitioners. Threats to independence, especially not driving and self-care, appeared to have a more profound effect on recovery than physical functioning. Conclusion: Older people view injury as a threat to independent functioning. This is somewhat different to what younger people report. Regaining independence is key to older people’s recovery and health-related quality of life following RTI, and should be a key consideration for health professionals, services and supports working with this unique cohort. Greater efforts to help older people regain their independence following RTI are needed and can be facilitated by health professionals and appropriate service provision. Trial registration: Australia New Zealand clinical trial registry identification number ACTRN12613000889752.

Hospital costs of older people in New South Wales in the last year of life

2007 ◽  
Vol 187 (7) ◽  
pp. 383-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katina Kardamanidis ◽  
Kim Lim ◽  
Cristalyn Da Cunha ◽  
Lee K Taylor ◽  
Louisa R Jorm
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Hospital Costs ◽  
South Wales

Epidemiology of ambulance responses to older people who have fallen in New South Wales, Australia

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 171-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul M Simpson ◽  
Jason C Bendall ◽  
Jillian Patterson ◽  
Anne Tiedemann ◽  
Paul M Middleton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Wales

scholarly journals Relative survival after hospitalisation for hip fracture in older people in New South Wales, Australia

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. M. Hindmarsh ◽  
A. Hayen ◽  
C. F. Finch ◽  
J. C. T. Close
Keyword(s):  
Hip Fracture ◽  
Older People ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Relative Survival ◽  
South Wales

scholarly journals I’ve got to be independent’: views of older people on recovery following road traffic injury in New South Wales, Australia

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Brown ◽  
Ian D. Cameron ◽  
Lisa Keay ◽  
Ha Nguyen ◽  
Lisa Dillon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Road Traffic Injury ◽  
Traffic Injury ◽  
South Wales

Older people in hospitals for the insane in New South Wales, Australia, 1849–1905

2021 ◽  
pp. 0957154X2110294
Author(s):  
Brian Draper
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Older People ◽  
Functional Impairment ◽  
Suicidal Behaviour ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
First Century ◽  
Admission Rates ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Health Factors

Older people had high admission rates to hospitals for the insane in New South Wales, Australia, in the second half of the nineteenth century. The medical casebooks of 226 patients aged 60 years and over admitted to two hospitals for the insane between 1849 and 1905 were examined. Aggressive behaviour (35.4%), suicidal behaviour (23.9%), fears of harm to self (19.9%) and alcohol issues (13.7%) were identified. Physical health factors (35.8%), functional impairment (18.6%) and poor nourishment (8.8%) were noted. Common diagnoses were mania (36.7%), dementia (31.9%) and melancholia (17.7%). Twenty-first-century diagnoses were assigned in nearly 94 per cent of cases with concordance that varied by diagnosis. The majority of admissions had serious mental disorders, with only 29.6 per cent being discharged.

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