GTC Care Initiative 'Conversation on Care'
The Role of Online & Technical Innovation in Social Care
Green Templeton College, E.P. Abraham Lecture Theatre, Monday 24 November 2014, 6pm.
The 'GTC Conversations on Care' provides an opportunity to assess broad developments within the fields of health and social care and to open new lines of enquiry through bringing together academics, practitioners and policy advisors with backgrounds in health, business and management and the social sciences.
The purpose of this conversation is to begin exploring the theoretical and practical implications of using digital technology to develop new models of care for older people, and to interrogate the challenges inherent in understanding what works and how to take effective developments to scale in a satisfactory way. Amidst burgeoning developments in a wide range of online services for individuals and institutions, there are critical questions to ask regarding their utility for enhancing care and their sustainability within the everyday practice of individuals, families and institutions.
Programme:
6.00: Welcome and Introduction by Mary Daly
6.05: Overview of Major Online Innovations Pertaining to Ageing and Key Relevant Considerations.
Speaker: Shirley Ayres, author of Can Online Innovations Enhance Social Care? (Nominet Trust 2013)
6.25: Empirical Example of Efforts to Embed Social Innovation Using Digital Technology in Home Environments: Findings from the AKTIVE Telecare Project.
Speaker: Kate Hamblin, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing
6.40: Critical Reflections and Open Floor (around the following groups of questions):
- What are the social and political implications of relevant innovations, including understandings of moral autonomy, concepts of values within care and their practical expression?
- How do these developments intersect with current practices around the giving and receiving of care?
- In what ways, and to what extent, do these innovations alter relationships between care-related services and their users?
- Are current innovations a 'flash in the pan' or do they represent a steady and sustainable evolution towards different approaches to care?
- What are the key issues around access to such technologies and sources of information, on the part of policy-makers, service designers, service providers, carers and those needing care?
- What would be needed to make specific (innovative) approaches at local level work at scale?
This ‘Conversation on Care’ is open to everyone but has limited capacity so registration is necessary.
If you would like to register then please complete the online registration form.
If you have any problems accessing the registration form or for any more information, please contact: donna.mcmenemy@gtc.ox.ac.uk
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