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Aging 4.0? Rethinking the ethical framing of technology-assisted eldercare
Technological approaches are increasingly discussed as a solution for the provision of support in activities of daily living as well as in medical and nursing care for older people. The development and implementation of such assistive technologies for eldercare raise manifold ethical, legal, and soc...
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description | Technological approaches are increasingly discussed as a solution for the provision of support in activities of daily living as well as in medical and nursing care for older people. The development and implementation of such assistive technologies for eldercare raise manifold ethical, legal, and social questions. The discussion of these questions is influenced by theoretical perspectives and approaches from medical and nursing ethics, especially the principlist framework of autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice. Tying in with previous criticism, the present contribution is taking these principles as a starting point and as a frame of reference to be critically re-examined. It thus aims to outline how existing ethical frameworks need to be extended or reconsidered to capture the ethical issues posed by technological developments regarding care for older people. In a first step, we provide a brief overview of assistive technologies in eldercare according to their purposes and functions. In the next step, we discuss how the questions and problems raised by new technologies in eldercare call for an expansion, re-interpretation, and revision of the principlist framework. We underline that the inclusion of ethical perspectives from engineering and computer science as well as a closer consideration of socio-political dimensions and fundamental anthropological and praxeological questions are needed. |
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spelling | pubmed-83326002021-08-20 Aging 4.0? Rethinking the ethical framing of technology-assisted eldercare Schicktanz, Silke Schweda, Mark Hist Philos Life Sci Original Paper Technological approaches are increasingly discussed as a solution for the provision of support in activities of daily living as well as in medical and nursing care for older people. The development and implementation of such assistive technologies for eldercare raise manifold ethical, legal, and social questions. The discussion of these questions is influenced by theoretical perspectives and approaches from medical and nursing ethics, especially the principlist framework of autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice. Tying in with previous criticism, the present contribution is taking these principles as a starting point and as a frame of reference to be critically re-examined. It thus aims to outline how existing ethical frameworks need to be extended or reconsidered to capture the ethical issues posed by technological developments regarding care for older people. In a first step, we provide a brief overview of assistive technologies in eldercare according to their purposes and functions. In the next step, we discuss how the questions and problems raised by new technologies in eldercare call for an expansion, re-interpretation, and revision of the principlist framework. We underline that the inclusion of ethical perspectives from engineering and computer science as well as a closer consideration of socio-political dimensions and fundamental anthropological and praxeological questions are needed. Springer International Publishing 2021-08-03 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8332600/ /pubmed/34342739 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00447-x Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Schicktanz, Silke Schweda, Mark Aging 4.0? Rethinking the ethical framing of technology-assisted eldercare |
title | Aging 4.0? Rethinking the ethical framing of technology-assisted eldercare |
title_full | Aging 4.0? Rethinking the ethical framing of technology-assisted eldercare |
title_fullStr | Aging 4.0? Rethinking the ethical framing of technology-assisted eldercare |
title_full_unstemmed | Aging 4.0? Rethinking the ethical framing of technology-assisted eldercare |
title_short | Aging 4.0? Rethinking the ethical framing of technology-assisted eldercare |
title_sort | aging 4.0? rethinking the ethical framing of technology-assisted eldercare |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8332600/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34342739 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00447-x |
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