What is it about?
Discusses how the Internet can be used for residents in a care setting and offers some useful web addresses.
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Why is it important?
Residents of care homes may have relatives who do not live locally. Using video links a relative can monitor a resident and have peace of mind.
Perspectives
Using the internet and phone apps can help maintain communication links.
Mrs Julie I Swann
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This page is a summary of: Encouraging communication through ‘silver surfing’, Nursing and Residential Care, October 2004, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/nrec.2004.6.10.16018.
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