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    Monitored and Cared for at Home? Privacy Concerns When Using Smart Home Health Technologies to Care for Older Persons
    with Vanessa Duong, Eike Buhr, Nadine Andrea Felber, Delphine Roulet Schwab, and Tenzin Wangmo
    AJOB Empirical Bioethics. forthcoming.
    Background States and families are facing growing challenges provide adequate care for older persons. Smart home health technologies (SHHTs) in the forms of sensor or robotic devices have been discussed as technical solutions for caregiving. Ethical and social concerns are raised with the use of such technologies for caregiving purposes, a particularly prominent one being privacy. This paper contributes to the literature by distinguishing privacy concerns into both the type of technologies and c…Read more
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    No playing around with robots? Ambivalent attitudes toward the use of Paro in elder care
    with Tenzin Wangmo, Vanessa Duong, Nadine Andrea Felber, and Emilian Mihailov
    Nursing Inquiry 31 (3). 2024.
    This paper explores the ways in which health care professionals, family carers, and older persons expressed attitudes and opinions on using Paro, a social robot designed to stimulate patients with dementia. Thereafter, we critically evaluate existing prejudicial views toward Paro users to provide recommendations for its future use. Using an exploratory qualitative interview method, we recruited a total of 67 participants in Switzerland. They included 23 care professionals, 17 family carers, and …Read more
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    Gerontechnologies, ethics, and care phases: Secondary analysis of qualitative interviews
    with Andrea Martani, Nadine Felber, and Tenzin Wangmo
    Nursing Ethics. forthcoming.
    Background Gerontechnologies are increasingly used in the care for older people. Many studies on their acceptability and ethical implications are conducted, but mainly from the perspective of principlism. This narrows our ethical gaze on the implications the use of these technologies have. Research question How do participants speak about the impact that gerontechnologies have on the different phases of care, and care as a process? What are the moral implications from an ethic of care perspectiv…Read more
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    Parents as secondary patients: Towards a more family-centred approach to care
    with Johanna Https://Orcidorg Eichinger, Bernice Elger, Insa Koné, and David Martin Shaw
    . forthcoming.
    The definition of ‘patient’ is commonly taken for granted and considered as obvious, but the term is rather underconceptualised in the literature. In this paper, it will be argued that the criterion of suffering can be considered a sufficient criterion for a parent to be considered a secondary patient when their seriously ill child is receiving medical care (i.e. not necessarily the parents themselves) – these parents are sufferers in virtue of the suffering of others. The nature of parental and…Read more
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    The coupled growth of population aging and international migration warrants attention on the methods and solutions available to adult children living overseas to provide distance caregiving for their aging parents. Despite living apart from their parents, the transnational informal care literature has indicated that first-generation immigrants remain committed to carry out their filial caregiving obligations in extensive and creative ways. With functions to remotely access health information ena…Read more
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    Mapping ethical issues in the use of smart home health technologies to care for older persons: a systematic review
    with Nadine Andrea Felber, Félix Pageau, Bernice Simone Elger, and Tenzin Wangmo
    BMC Medical Ethics 24 (1): 1-13. 2023.
    Background The worldwide increase in older persons demands technological solutions to combat the shortage of caregiving and to enable aging in place. Smart home health technologies (SHHTs) are promoted and implemented as a possible solution from an economic and practical perspective. However, ethical considerations are equally important and need to be investigated. Methods We conducted a systematic review according to the PRISMA guidelines to investigate if and how ethical questions are discusse…Read more
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    The Ethical Unjustifications of COVID-19 Triage Committees
    Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 18 (4): 621-628. 2021.
    The ever-debated question of triage and allocating the life-saving ventilator during the COVID-19 pandemic has been repeatedly raised and challenged within the ethical community after shortages propelled doctors before life and death decisions. The British Medical Association’s ethical guidance highlighted the possibility of an initial surge of patients that would outstrip the health system’s ability to deliver care “to existing standards,” where utilitarian measures have to be applied, and tria…Read more
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    In presence of predator population, the prey population may significantly change their behavior. Fear for predator population enhances the survival probability of prey population, and it can greatly reduce the reproduction of prey population. In this study, we propose a predator-prey fishery model introducing the cost of fear into prey reproduction with Holling type-II functional response and prey-dependent harvesting and investigate the global dynamics of the proposed model. For the system with…Read more
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    This study aims to explore the current situation and strategy formulation of sports psychology teaching in colleges and universities following adaptive learning and deep learning under information education. The informatization in physical education, teaching methods, and teaching processes make psychological education more scientific and efficient. First, the relevant theories of adaptive learning and deep learning are introduced, and an adaptive learning analysis model is implemented. Second, …Read more