Das Potenzial neuer Technologien zur Unterstützung von Pflege über eine räumliche Distanz - Literaturstand und qualitative Befunde.

The potential of technological assistance to support distance caregiving - literature review and empirical results Due to demographic change, increasing labour mobility and changing family patterns, social relationships often exist over long distances. Supporting relatives over a distance is therefore a highly topical issue but still little discussed, also in Germany and Switzerland. The project "DiCa" (2016 - 2019) with an interdisciplinary research team from Germany (EH Ludwigsburg) and Switzerland (Careum School of Health, Zurich) aims to investigate different dimensions of "Distance Caregiving".

[Distance caregiving? : A qualitative interview study with distance caregivers].

Background: Family caregivers are important players in both inpatient and domestic healthcare. As a result of increasing mobility many also perform care over geographical distances.

Objective: The article highlights the opportunities and challenges of distance caregiving from a distance caregivers' perspective.

[Current findings on distance caregiving : What do we know and what do we not (yet) know?].

Background: Demographic change, increasing work mobility as well as changed family patterns lead to social relationships over long distances; however, support from relatives from a distance is hardly debated in the German-speaking region. The project "DiCa" (2016-2019) studies various dimensions of long-distance caregiving.

Objective: This article presents the state of the art in research on specific characteristics of care arrangements from a distance.