Partnership between healthcare and social services agencies has been a major theme of
government policy for the last ten years and the potential for care homes to contribute …

This paper reports ways of working and early findings from the Partnership with Care Homes
Project (PCH). PCH is an extension to the ongoing CELEC Action Research Project: Care …

Every single instant a person generates a large amount of information that somehow is lost.
This information can assume a large diversity of means, such as an oral word, a sneeze, an …

Results: Case studies included co-design groups: 1) 10-15 persons designing self-care
system for heart failure, 2) 5-10 persons designing home carers educations system and 3) 5 …

In common with many other countries, around three quarters of carers in the UK now care for
older people and a third of carers are aged 65+. Although internationally there is a wealth of …

Purpose: The research presented demonstrates the disharmony between end user goals
and their consideration in service outcomes within ageing-in-place and asks “what can …

This chapter argues that with the growth of the digital infrastructures, care is increasingly
dispersed in a collective of human and non-human relations, across public and private …

Long‐term care in general, and care homes in particular, have never enjoyed high status as
a place to live and work. This remains the case. In large part this marginalised position is …