George Demiris

Biographic Data

ID5124650
NAMEGeorge Demiris
GIVEN NAMESGeorge
FAMILY NAMEDemiris
SIGNATUREDEMIRIS G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Washington
ORCID0000-0002-6318-5829
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • What Does Moral Agency Mean for Nurses in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

    Open AccessConnie M Ulrich, Oonjee Oh et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2026

    Being a moral agent was once thought to be an irreplaceable, uniquely human role for nurses and other health care professionals who care for patients and their families during illness and hospitalization. Today, however, artificial intelligence systems are often referred to as "artificial moral agents," "agentic," and "autonomous agents." As these systems begin to function in various capacities within health care organizations and to perform spec…

  • Close but Not Close Enough

    Lauren T Starr, Karla T Washington et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2024

    Half of hospice family caregivers report having unmet information needs, which can contribute to poor pain and symptom management, emergency department use, and hospice disenrollment for care-recipients and to caregiver strain and stress. Effective communication between hospice teams and family caregivers is critical yet communication inadequacies persist. Despite the growing prevalence of distance caregiving, including in hospice care, and the r…

  • Domain Experts on Dementia-Care Technologies

    Open AccessClara Berridge, George Demiris et al.ARTICLEScience and Engineering Ethics2021

    There is an urgent need to learn how to appropriately integrate technologies into dementia care. The aims of this Delphi study were to project which technologies will be most prevalent in dementia care in five years, articulate potential benefits and risks, and identify specific options to mitigate risks. Participants were also asked to identify technologies that are most likely to cause value tensions and thus most warrant a conversation with an…

  • The Experience of Home Care Providers and Beneficiaries With Enhanced Training Requirements in Washington State

    Open AccessAnne Ordway, Kurt Johnson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health2019References: 2

    Objective: Our objective was to understand the perceived impact of Washington State's upgraded training and certification requirements of long-term care workers providing personal care services from the perspectives of consumers and home care aides. Methods: We applied conventional qualitative content analysis to semi-structured interviews with 17 consumers and 10 certified home care aides. Results: We found that consumers in this study put a hig…

  • Patterns of Technology Use Among Older Adults With and Without Disabilities

    Nancy Gell, Nancy M Gell et al.ARTICLEThe Gerontologist2015

    PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: The purpose of this study was to describe prevalence of technology use among adults ages 65 and older, particularly for those with disability and activity-limiting symptoms and impairments. DESIGN AND METHODS: Data from the 2011 National Health and Aging Trends Study, a nationally representative sample of community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries (N = 7,609), were analyzed. Analysis consisted of technology use (use of e-mail…

  • Stress Variances Among Informal Hospice Caregivers

    Open AccessElaine Wittenberg-Lyles, Elaine Wittenberg‐Lyles et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2012

    Care interventions are not routinely provided for hospice caregivers, despite widespread documentation of the burden and toll of the caregiving experience. Assessing caregivers for team interventions (ACT) proposes that holistic patient and family care includes ongoing caregiver needs assessment of primary, secondary, and intrapsychic stressors. In this study, our goal was to describe the variance in stressors for caregivers to establish evidence…

  • The ACTive Intervention in Hospice Interdisciplinary Team Meetings

    Open AccessElaine Wittenberg-Lyles, Elaine Wittenberg‐Lyles et al.ARTICLEJournal of Computer-Mediated…2010Cited by: 1

    This paper presents the theoretical framework and rationale for the ACTive intervention which proposes the use of video technology to facilitate patient and family participation in hospice interdisciplinary team meetings where plans of care are determined. It is surmised that patient and family involvement will improve communication and compliance in hospice care. An analysis of data from a pilot project of the ACTive intervention was conducted t…

  • Social Work Informatics

    Debra Parker-Oliver, George DemirisARTICLESocial Work2006Cited by: 9References: 3

    The use of technology in social work practice has risen dramatically over the past 10 years. Clinical interventions such as psychotherapy using telephones, interactive video, and the Internet are gaining in popularity. For a discipline traditionally tied to face-to-face interaction, many concerns about moving to technology-based practices have been raised. The National Association of SocialWorkers recently embraced a new initiative to address the…