CaringS – Digital Care in Aging Societies: Designing Responsible Care Ecosystems
BUA-Excellence Strategy: 3. Grand Challenges – Responsible Innovations
Project details
In aging societies, the escalating demand for eldercare is increasingly met by digital technologies that aim to enhance the quality of life of eldercare consumers by innovating and transforming existing care systems. Innovations such as smart beds, robot pets, smart pillboxes, AI voice assistants, or fall-detection sensors not only promise tailored therapies, integrated care delivery, and heightened system efficiency but also aim to increase patient empowerment and well-being. However, these technologies also introduce risks and challenges, including concerns about loss of control, dependence, data privacy, and potential misconduct. To unleash their innovative potential, these technologies should be integrated within a digital ecosystem tailored to the highly demanding context of eldercare. As such, these technologies could truly be responsible innovations and transform the eldercare system. Responsible innovations must address significant challenges such as market-driven pressures on public and private care providers, high burnout rates among caregivers, and the plight of eldercare consumers who suffer from occasionally suboptimal care and insufficient relational interaction. A responsible digital care ecosystem must skillfully balance economic and institutional demands with high care standards and ensure all stakeholders' physical and psychological well-being. This project will investigate the potential of modern digital technologies to ignite and accelerate the transformation of eldercare consumers’ environments into responsible care ecosystems. The multiple perspectives of different stakeholders in the eldercare ecosystem warrant an interdisciplinary approach and active practitioner engagement. Our project seeks to establish a multidisciplinary research team across three BUA institutions, merging expertise in Consumer Behavior Research, Service Research, Digital Innovations, Healthcare Innovation Management, and Intensive Care Medicine, in collaboration with a prominent eldercare provider in Berlin. During the funding period, we aim to sustainably expand our network of expert researchers, promising junior researchers, and engaged practitioners to collaboratively develop an agenda for designing, implementing, and evaluating responsible innovations in eldercare systems.
Abbildung 1: A digital eldercare ecosystem.
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Projektlaufzeit |
Zwei Jahre: Oktober 2024 – September 2026 |
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Projektwebseite |
CaringS (auf BUA-Seite im Aufbau) |
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Projektbudget: |
208.127,- EUR (für zwei Jahre) |
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Projektpartner: |
Technische Universität Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin: Pflegewerk Berlin GmbH:
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Publikationen:
Im Rahmen des Projekts CaringS werden zahlreiche Publikationen (u.a. Projektberichte, Tagungs- und Workshop-Dokumentationen, Konferenz- und Journalbeiträge, o.ä.) zu verschiedenen Themen- und Arbeitsschwerpunkten entstehen. Im Folgenden finden Sie erste ausgewählte Arbeitsergebnisse zum Download aufgelistet.
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