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O uso das tecnologias digitais entre os seniores: motivações e interesses

O artigo tem como principal objetivo analisar a relacao dos seniores mais jovens (55-65 anos) e dos mais velhos (66 ou mais anos) com as tecnologias da informacao e da comunicacao (TIC), em particular com o computador e a internet. Desenvolve-se uma analise de cariz quantitativo, com base num inquerito por questionario administrado nas cidades de Lisboa, Porto e Coimbra a uma amostra de 792 individuos, em complementaridade com alguns dados qualitativos recolhidos atraves de 30 entrevistas semiestruturadas. Tenta-se conhecer as motivacoes e interesses ligados ao uso das referidas tecnologias e compreender em que medida tal pratica contribui para a inclusao dos mais velhos nas sociedades tecnologicas e incrementa as relacoes e solidariedades intergeracionais e amicais.

The Portuguese stakeholders’ perspective on social investment and quality assessment in LTC

ABSTRACT There has been quite a considerable amount of debate over the last decade about the importance of quality assessment in the field of LTC provision in Portugal, framed by the discourse on social investment. In a context of limited resources, care providers are pressured to demonstrate creation of value. Quality assessment becomes one of the paths to demonstrate worthiness. This, however, has not translated into standardised protocols of evaluation of impacts and quality in particular. The question has been asked why is that? In this article we contribute to answering this question by looking at the discourses of stakeholders on the topic of social investment and quality in LTC. Overall there is a discourse that acknowledges the importance of assessing investments and quality as a reliable proxy to measure return on investments, although there is a general difficulty in translating social investment and the quest for quality into specific examples and tools.