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Negotiating Digital Technologies in Palliative Home Care

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DIPAL: Negotiating Digital Technologies in Palliative Home Care aims to better understand the intricacies and challenges of using digital technologies such as teleconsultations, apps, wearables, and artificial intelligence to make palliative home care more accessible to a broader range of patient groups, while also enhancing its economic and environmental sustainability. Current research typically views digital technology usage in palliative home care either from the viewpoint of patients and family caregivers or of professionals, with both seeming decoupled from one another. In contrast, NEDIPAL examines the co-production of palliative home care by professionals in collaboration with patients and family caregivers, through the lens of systems and organizational theory. The sociological project transcends disciplinary boundaries by integrating insights from health services research, palliative medicine, communication, and digital inclusion. The research will involve qualitative on-site field studies in the Belgian region of Wallonia at five interdisciplinary quipes de soutien do

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