Between 2022 and 2025 we examined national policy contexts across the four UK nations and explored how care stakeholders engage with technology.
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Navigating Transnational Aged Care: The Role of WhatsApp in Zimbabwean Migrant Families
Event recording now available.
This presentation by Dr Obert Tawodzera sheds light on the pivotal role of WhatsApp family groups in facilitating transnational aged care.
CARE MATTERS Podcast live episode: AI, Sensors & Robots: what is next for Social Care in the UK?
We are delighted to release the recording of our live podcast event, held at the University of Sheffield as part of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Festival of Social Sciences.
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Welfare technology for older people and their informal carers in a Swedish context
A newly published PhD-thesis on welfare technology for older people and their informal carers in a Swedish context by Maria Nilsson, doctoral student at the Swedish Family Care Competence Centre.
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New Working Paper: Technology in social care: spotlight on the English policy landscape, 2019-2022
We are pleased to release our first Working Paper, written by Dr Grace Whitfield and Dr Kate Hamblin.
Read more about New Working Paper: Technology in social care: spotlight on the English policy landscape, 2019-2022Reflections on ‘A “gloriously ordinary life’’: spotlight on adult social care’
Kate Hamblin writes about her experience giving evidence to the House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee’s inquiry on adult social care and comments on the subsequent report published in December ’22.
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