CLINICAL/CE WEBINAR
The Use of Technologies in Elder Care: Ethical Issues in Practice
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
4:00 pm ET, 3:00 pm CT, 2:00 pm MT, 1:00 pm PT
Registration deadline: May 20, 2020
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Technology is profoundly human. It helps shape, and is shaped by, our social practices, including caregiving strategies. Some technologies with a surveilling component raise complex ethical issues and challenge our ideas of privacy, dignity, and autonomy. Internet-connected technologies (Internet of Things/IoT) can track a range of behaviors to detect changes or manage risk with memory loss. But are these intrusions welcome? With its strong focus on caregiver needs, industry struggles to ensure that innovation is responsive to the needs and aspirations of older adults. In this webinar, Dr. Berridge will reflect on ethical contours of care technologies and illustrate how devices both embody and challenge values that matter to older adults.
Webinar Goal: To help audience members understand how elder care technologies can place values in tension and cause ethical dilemmas.
Learning Objectives:
- Attendees will have an increased understanding of the ethical implications for the use of technology in monitoring older adults.
- Attendees will be able to anticipate possible disagreements regarding preferences for technologies used in care by older adults and their family members
- Attendees will be able to advise clients about the ethical implications of the use of monitoring devices.
About the Presenter
Clara Berridge, PhD, MSW, is assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work. She received her MSW from the University of Washington, a PhD in Social Welfare from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Brown University’s Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research in the Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice. She studies the social and ethical aspects of network-connected (IoT) technologies that allow caregivers to remotely monitor people where they live. Dr. Berridge was recently funded by the National Institute on Aging to develop a tool to help families engage older adults in decisions about technologies used in care.
Continuing Education Credit Hours
ALCA has been approved for 1 CE contact hour from CBRN, NACCM, and NYSED, and has applied for approval from NASW and CCMC. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # 15884, for 1 Contact Hour. Aging Life Care Association, SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0166. This event has been approved for 1.0 contact hour. Attendee must attend entire webinar to receive any CE certificates. Attendees requesting a CE Certificate for Social Work (NASW or NYSED) must successfully submit and pass a post-test prior to receiving CE certificate.
Cancellation Policy
The registration fee for webinars is non-refundable. Registrants who are not able to attend the webinar will receive audio & video files following the event. For clinical webinars, CE contact hours will not be available to those who are not able to attend the entire live event.
In the unfortunate event that a webinar needs to be cancelled or rescheduled ALCA will notify the registrant by email and provide information on the new date or alternative arrangements. If the registrant is not able to attend the new date ALCA will refund the registration fee or place a credit towards a future event.
Fees: Free for Advanced Professional Members
$29.00 for Members and Corporate Partners / $99 for Nonmembers