- Title
- Technology-enabled legal service delivery for older adults: what can law learn from TeleHealth? Findings from an International Review of Literature
- Creator
- Ries, Nola M.; Johnston, Briony; McCarthy, Shaun
- Relation
- Elder Law Review Vol. 10
- Relation
- https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/elr/elder_law/elder_law_review_elr/elder_law_review_vol_10
- Publisher
- University of Western Sydney
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Australia, like many industrialised countries, is experiencing two major, unprecedented social phenomena: the ageing of the population and rapid advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs). Both have implications for legal service delivery. Much has been written on how the ubiquity of web-connected computers and mobile devices will transform legal service delivery, vastly expanding ways for lawyers to connect with people who need legal help, extending the reach of not for profit legal assistance providers, and making legal proceedings more accessible and convenient. But what promise does technology hold for improving access to legal services for older adults in order to help meet their particular needs? Technology is already transforming health service delivery with telehealth initiatives that use ICTs to connect health professionals with older adults who would otherwise face barriers in accessing care. Similar to telehealth, lawyers can use video or webconferencing technology to deliver legal help, including one-to-one consultations and community legal education targeted to the needs of older people.
- Subject
- information and communication technologies (ICTs); legal service delivery; elderly; mobile devices
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1348562
- Identifier
- uon:30225
- Identifier
- ISSN:1045-7437
- Language
- eng
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