Many Thanks

Many thanks to Telehealth and Telecare Aware (www.telecareaware.com) for their lovely write up on the DTA: the Dependability Telecare Assessment tool - The Person-centred Telecare Assessment manual which can be found here http://telecareaware.com/dependability-telecare-assessment-tool-released.

DTA: the Dependability Telecare Assessment tool manual is only available from the gdewsbury.com/dta website. It costs £19.99 which includes free first class UK postage and packaging.

DTA: The Dependability Telecare Assessment tool

New Book Press Release

“Only install sufficient telecare to enable a person.”

gdewsbury are proud to announce their most recent publication: 

DTA: The Dependability Telecare Assessment tool 

The ‘Person-Centred Telecare Assessment’

A new manual, published on the 15^th September 2014, by Guy Dewsbury PhD and Debbie Ballard of gdewsbury.  Written for practitioners and professionals who assess, provide or install telecare including people who work with assistive technology.  DTA is also relevant to the academic sector and can be a learning resource in any telecare course and is core reading on the postgraduate telecare course at Edinburgh University.

The Dependability Telecare Assessment tool (DTA) is a new independent assessment tool, which puts the person at the start, the middle and the finish of any assessment.  It considers the whole person, their needs, their activities and their wishes.  This assessment tool can be used in conjunction with existing care assessments.  As a result, a more transparent and accountable assessment is undertaken which clearly demonstrates the rationale for any equipment proposed.

Adding to the existing knowledge on telecare assessments, the manual provides a unique method to determine appropriate telecare for a person.  The DTA matrix comprises four key properties, each of which incorporates three individual elements. The manual also provides three Outcome and Review forms in the Appendix.  This manual provides best practice advice on how to deploy the DTA in the field.   

This manual represents a new technique for thinking about telecare assessments and demonstrates a qualitative way to consider telecare’s relationship with people in need of additional support. 

DTA is a culmination of many years of academic ethnographic research with older and disabled people in the design of telecare technology to support them. When gdewsbury (www.gdewsbury.com) formed in 2012, it proved to be the appropriate time to write and publish DTA as a manual for professionals. A key theme throughout DTA is “only install sufficient telecare to enable a person. Excessive use of telecare could disable a person.”

For people in health, social care, housing, academia or a private professional in a field related to telecare this manual is essential reading.

The spiral bound A4 manual (ISBN 978-0-9930485-0-0) is available through PayPal from gdewsbury www.gdewsbury.com/dta at a price of only £19.99 with free p&p in the UK, outside the UK p&p charges apply. 

If you would like to obtain a copy this manual or would like more information, please contact gdewsbury.com@gmail.com. 

gdewsbury are Dr Guy Dewsbury and Debbie Ballard

The Future of Health and Technology

I was recently asked to speak at the University of Edinburgh on the 26th May 2014 for Health Informatics Scotland and the British Computer Society. The talk was entitled the Future of Health and Technology. The talk attempted to consider the links between people and technology and health whilst focussing on telecare. It presents a person-centred perspective and introduces the Dependability Telecare Assessment tool (DTA) which is currently being redesigned and updated to a version 2. 

The talk description is available at http://www.bcs.org/content/conEvent/8720
 and http://www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/his/events/webinars/the-talk-the-future-of-technology-and-health.aspx

The talk is available as a Webinar for all at http://www.video3uk.com/ospcast.aspx?eid=ECYe56Kdi8XD 

The slides for the presentation are available at Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/GuyDewsbury/the-future-of-ttechnology-and-health-edinburgh-university-may-26th-2014


 DTA version 2 will be available from www.gdewsbury.com

If you have any comments on this presentation guy would enjoy hearing them