We are delighted to welcome a new GOLTC interest group on Technology and Long-Term care, with thanks to Jacqueline Damant (Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science), Paul Freddolino (School of Social Work, Michigan State University) and Tenzin Wangmo (Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel) for setting it up and forming the steering group.

The technology and long-term care interest group aims to bring together academics, policy makers, government officials, care practitioners, service providers and commissioners, technology developers, family carers and older persons who are interested in discussing the pertinent issues of technology-use to deliver and support long term care for older adults. The overall purpose is to contribute towards the discussion of incorporating technology in the care process to improve care practices, promote connectivity between relevant stakeholders and across care sectors and to enrich the well-being of older persons. The group will serve as a source of webinars, articles, and other materials and create networking opportunities by bringing together individuals from different sectors who address how technologies can best and reasonably be employed in long term care contexts.

The group will organise webinars to facilitate engagement with different stakeholders working in this area from the fields of ageing, policy, long-term care, ethics, sociology, nursing and more. We hope to engage scholars from around the world to learn from technology deployment practices in areas with varying socioeconomic, cultural, and geographic contexts.

If you would like to join the group and you are already a member of GOLTC, please let us know by emailing ilp-network@lse.ac.uk. If you are new to GOLTC, please create a profile using this link, when you join you can choose all the interest groups you are interested in (please note that we are not able to add people who have not created a profile to interest groups).

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