What is the goal of advanced telecare provision for older people? How we define its success will affect how we view its outcomes

This new Viewpoint (no 102) by the University of Cambridge's Centre for Housing and Planning Research draws on their recent research and suggests that there is a discrepancy in opinion about what telecare is for. It finds that telecare designers, suppliers and manufacturers, local authorities, housing providers, users of telecare, their families, and carers, all hold a range of goals for the use of advanced telecare.

How these goals are held in tension and how they impact the definition of successful provision are discussed in this piece for the Housing LIN.