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Support Services for Informal Caregivers: Survey with Providers in Austria

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2016)

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Support services with informal caregivers as primary target group can reduce the burden caused by the care work. But at the moment the offer in Austria is underdeveloped and underutilized due to problems on the side of the providers and on the side of the informal caregivers. After doing expert interviews, a questionnaire was created and distributed to providers in Austria. It focused on current offers of support services and their acceptance, marketing activities, future of the overall offer in Austria and ICT usage. This paper presents the results of the questionnaire and also compares it to former studies done in this area.

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  1. Multidisciplinary Design Group, Institute for Design and Assessment of Technology, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Susanne Hensely-Schinkinger

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  1. Institute Integriert Studieren, Universität Linz, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Rehabilitationswissenschaften, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Christian Bühler

  3. Masaryk University , Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penaz

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Hensely-Schinkinger, S. (2016). Support Services for Informal Caregivers: Survey with Providers in Austria. In: Miesenberger, K., Bühler, C., Penaz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9758. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41264-1_42

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