Anticipating Technology‐Enabled Care at home

Bibliographic Data

ID8963541
AuthorsLouise Reid (0000-0003-0577-1210, School of Geography and Geosciences University of St Andrews St Andrews UK, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume47
Issue1
Pages108-122
Publication date2021-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/tran.12476
OpenAlexW3168163355
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited52

The spread and growth of ubiquitous smart technology to deliver public health outcomes, particularly within/at home, urgently requires greater scholarly attention. This paper uses data from interviews with professionals in Scotland who are designing and implementing Technology‐Enabled Care (TEC) for current and future homes. Theoretically informed by both critical geographies of home and futures scholarship, this paper presents a three‐part framework – “homes‐that‐are,” “homes‐that‐ought,” and “homes‐to‐be” – to explore the techno‐solutionist accounts of home, bringing to bear the messiness and complexity of home, both its conceptualisation and experience. It highlights prediction as an emerging form of anticipatory practice, generating new questions and conceptualisations about the openness of futures. Moreover, it demonstrates the importance of understanding the underlying assumptions of those who make decisions when planning for future TEC and housing; about who they imagine they are planning for, and how diverse these futures are

Business · Economic growth · Economics · Futures contract · Openness to experience · Political science · Public relations · Scholarship · Sociology · TEC · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Health disparities and outcomes · Marketing · Psychology · Social Psychology · Technology Use by Older Adults