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Modern multimodal surveillance or domotic systems are being increasingly used in the residential care of people with learning difficulties and dementia. The paper by Niemeijer et al describes a study using concept mapping techniques to develop a better understanding of the ‘ideal application’ of such technologies in dementia care, seen from the point of view of ethicists and healthcare professionals (see page 303).
The study identifies six categories of considerations that can be graphically depicted in the following way where the x axis represents the context to which the consideration refers and the y axis indicates whether the consideration is mainly …
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