eHealth and ageing in rural areas
DIGSUM’s European collaborative project HARVEST, recently held a meeting at one of its partner institutions, The Catholic University of Milan.
HARVEST — eHealth and Aging in Rural Areas: Transforming Everyday Life, Digital Competences, and Technology — is a collaborative European research project that analyses policies, practices, and learning processes, related to uses of eHealth technology among elderly people in rural areas in Finland, Italy and Sweden.
The project involves researchers from DIGSUM at Umeå University in Sweden, University of Lapland (Centre for Media Pedagogy, and Social Work), in Finland, and the Department of Communication and Performing Arts at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy.
Field research and policy analysis is carried out collaboratively in Finland, Italy, and Sweden to produce knowledge about digital landscapes of care: the cultural, ideological, geographical, organisational and virtual topography of eHealth in which old age rural users of eHealth are situated.
Read more about HARVEST here.
