Ageing with telecare: care or coercion in austerity?

Steve Hards

Heads-up on an article in Sociol. Health Illn. Ageing with telecare: care or coercion in austerity? (Abstract) by Mort M, Roberts C, Callén B. The authors argue that “home-monitoring based telecare has the potential to coerce older people unless we are able to recognise and respect a range of responses including non-use and ‘misuse’ in daily practice.” Their solution? “re-imagining the aims of telecare and redesigning systems to allow for creative engagement with technologies and the co-production of care relations [what does that mean?] would help to avoid the application of coercive forms of care technology in times of austerity.”