Technology and Family Caregiving
Help Us to Help Family Caregivers
United Hospital Fund is interested in your feedback about the use of technology to assist family caregivers.
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1.
Are you a family caregiver--an unpaid relative or close friend who provides essential care to one or more adults with chronic or terminal illness or serious mental or physical disabilities?
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Yes
No
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2.
Which of the following technologies, if any, are you already using? (Please check all that apply.)
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Electronic organizers of health information
Electronic organizers to communicate with family members/friends and/or to schedule help
Personal Emergency Response Systems or Medical Emergency Response Systems
Home monitoring systems
Tracking systems for outside the home
None of the above
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Which factors might influence your choice to purchase any of these technologies? (Please check all that apply.)
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Privacy (limiting the information to people you specifically identify)
Cost
Intrusiveness
Ease/difficulty of use
Access/lack of access to Internet
Willingness/resistance of family member
Reliability
None of the above
Other (please specify)
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To help direct our future work, please tell us what is most important to you in thinking about technology as a tool to assist in caregiving.