Aging in Place Together: The Journey Towards Adoption and Acceptance of Stairlifts in Multi-Resident Homes

Ewan Soubutts; Amid Ayobi; Rachel Eardley; Ki Cater; Aisling Ann O'Kane

doi:10.1145/3476061

Aging in Place Together: The Journey Towards Adoption and Acceptance of Stairlifts in Multi-Resident Homes

Ewan Soubutts, Amid Ayobi, Rachel Eardley, Ki Cater, Aisling Ann O'Kane

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Abstract

Stairlifts are a widely-used technology in the home that help people with mobility issues to go up and down stairs. However, it is unclear how stairlifts are experienced by all household members and what this understanding implies for home healthcare technologies. We investigated the impact of stairlift installations on older adults' households in the UK through a qualitative study investigating the lived experience of the adoption and acceptance of this technology. Interviews and focus groups with primary users, household residents and service providers showed how the wider household identify misalignments between simplified stairlift installation models from service providers and describe a more complex, nuanced emotional journey which involves decision making, conflict and trauma and catharsis and independence. Findings provide transferrable outcomes for the smart home domain by highlighting the multi-resident home, the emotional intrusiveness of home healthcare technologies and the diversity that comes with providing care, unique to every household.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Subtitle of host publication	CSCW
Editors	Jeff Nichols
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	1-26
Number of pages	26
Volume	5
Edition	CSCW2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3476061
Publication status	Published - 18 Oct 2021
Event	ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2021 - Virtual Duration: 23 Oct 2021 → 27 Oct 2021 https://cscw.acm.org/2021/

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Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISSN (Electronic)	2573-0142

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Conference	ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2021
Abbreviated title	CSCW 2021
Period	23/10/21 → 27/10/21
Internet address	https://cscw.acm.org/2021/

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Digital Health
Bristol Interaction Group

Keywords

stairlifts
households
assistive technology
aging
health
care
older adults
multi-resident homes

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Amazon Echo Show as a Multimodal Human-to-Human Care Support Tool within Self-Isolating Older UK Households
Soubutts, E., Ayobi, A., Eardley, R., McNaney, R., Cater, K. F. & O'Kane, A. A., 11 Nov 2022, CSCW 22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 31 p. 302. (CSCW; vol. 6, no. CSCW2).
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SPHERE2
Craddock, I. J. (Principal Investigator), Mirmehdi, M. (Co-Investigator), Piechocki, R. J. (Co-Investigator), Flach, P. A. (Co-Investigator), Oikonomou, G. (Co-Investigator), Burghardt, T. (Co-Investigator), Damen, D. (Co-Investigator), Santos-Rodriguez, R. (Co-Investigator), O'Kane, A. A. (Co-Investigator), McConville, R. (Co-Investigator), Masullo, A. (Co-Investigator) & Gooberman-Hill, R. (Co-Investigator)
1/10/18 → 31/01/23
Project: Research, Parent

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Soubutts, E., Ayobi, A., Eardley, R., Cater, K., & O'Kane, A. A. (2021). Aging in Place Together: The Journey Towards Adoption and Acceptance of Stairlifts in Multi-Resident Homes. In J. Nichols (Ed.), Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction: CSCW (CSCW2 ed., Vol. 5, pp. 1-26). Article 320 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3476061

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Soubutts, E, Ayobi, A, Eardley, R, Cater, K & O'Kane, AA 2021, Aging in Place Together: The Journey Towards Adoption and Acceptance of Stairlifts in Multi-Resident Homes. in J Nichols (ed.), Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction: CSCW. CSCW2 edn, vol. 5, 320, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 1-26, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2021, 23/10/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3476061

Aging in Place Together: The Journey Towards Adoption and Acceptance of Stairlifts in Multi-Resident Homes. / Soubutts, Ewan; Ayobi, Amid; Eardley, Rachel et al.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction: CSCW. ed. / Jeff Nichols. Vol. 5 CSCW2. ed. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021. p. 1-26 320.

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