We report findings from a study that set out to explore the experience of older people living with assisted living technologies and care services. We find that successful ‘ageing in place’ is socially and collaboratively accomplished – ‘co-produced’ – day-to-day by the efforts of older people, and their formal and informal networks of carers (e.g. family, friends, neighbours). First, we reveal how ‘bricolage’ allows care recipients and family members to customise assisted living technologies to individual needs. We argue that making customisation easier through better design must be part of making assisted living technologies ‘work’. Second, we draw attention to the importance of formal and informal carers establishing and maintaining mutual awareness of the older person’s circumstances day-to-day so they can act in a concerted and coordinated way when problems arise. Unfortunately, neither the design of most current assisted living technologies, nor the ways care services are typically configured, acknowledges these realities of ageing in place. We conclude that rather than more ‘advanced’ technologies, the success of ageing in place programmes will depend on effortful alignments in the technical, organisational and social configuration of support.

中文翻译：

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《就地养老》的日常联合制作。


我们报告了一项研究的结果，该研究旨在探索老年人在辅助生活技术和护理服务下的生活体验。我们发现，成功的“就地养老”是通过老年人及其正式和非正式的照顾者网络（例如家人、朋友、邻居）的日常努力，通过社会和协作方式实现的——“共同创造”。首先，我们揭示“拼凑”如何让护理接受者和家庭成员根据个人需求定制辅助生活技术。我们认为，通过更好的设计使定制变得更容易必须成为辅助生活技术“发挥作用”的一部分。其次，我们提请注意正式和非正式护理人员建立和保持对老年人日常情况的相互了解的重要性，以便他们在出现问题时能够采取一致和协调的方式采取行动。不幸的是，无论是大多数当前辅助生活技术的设计，还是护理服务的典型配置方式，都没有承认这些就地老龄化的现实。我们的结论是，居家养老计划的成功将取决于技术、组织和社会支持配置的努力协调，而不是更“先进”的技术。