Technology Nurtured - Collectives in Maintaining and Implementing Technology for Elderly Care

Abstract

Elderly care has become an increasingly appealing market for technology producers. Design for the elderly, however, often entails the meeting of two different worlds, one of young male high-tech professionals and one of elderly people and elderly care. This paper focuses on what happens to a new security technology making the transition between the two. Particular emphasis is laid on distributed and collective aspects of implementation and adaptation of new technology: networks of utilization and activities are discussed as pools of resources and interests for sustaining and shaping technology. *Key words*: implementation, networks, elderly care