The Green Templeton College 'Conversations on Care' brings together academics, practitioners and policy advisors with backgrounds in health, business, management and the social sciences.to explore innovative developments and open new lines of enquiry. This conversation considered the theoretical and practical implications of using digital technology to develop new models of care for older people.

1. GTC Care Initiative 'Conversation on
Care'
The Role of Online and Technical
Innovation in Social Care
24th November
Green Templeton College Oxford
#GTCcareinitiative
@ShirleyAyres

2. Can online innovations enhance care?

3. The Phenomena of the Ageing Better Industry
Why has this huge industry been so slow to embrace new models of care for older
citizens?

4. Digital
cannot replace
human contact

5. Getting the basics right

6. We must enable the design and delivery of appropriate care
services to meet the needs of individuals and fit with our lifestyles
Who wants their homes to look like a hospital ward?

7. Critical Issues for Care

8. Quick Quiz

9. Older people are not
a homogenous
group, they’re as
varied in their needs
and interests as
individuals in any
other sector of the
population.

10. Developing local Wellbeing and Social
Technology Hubs

11. Easily accessible information and support
to make a reality of what for many people
is just the rhetoric of choice and control.

12. A more joined-up approach to digital inclusion and open ways of working
which avoid the expensive and unnecessary duplication of pilots

13. Community events which showcase digital
technology innovation and encourage
people to explore the opportunities,
challenges and benefits of being better
connected.

14. Keep in touch!
@shirleyayres
Blog: http://shirleyayres.wordpress.com/about
Podcasts: www.disruptivesocialcare.com
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