Technology enabling new models of care in the home or community: Final report analysis and recommendations

To help better understand the complex topic of technology enabled care at home and in the community, this report by PUBLIC, based on research commissioned by the Health Foundation, brings together the findings from interviews and workshops with those who receive care, deliver care and decision makers at provider, system and national levels.

The research sought to look for opportunities where technology could enable proactive and relational models of care so people can be supported to maintain, or improve, their own health and independence for as long as possible.The first section considers the experience of care, and whether it is proactive or reactive, relational or non-relational and includes how care recipients, informal carers and social care professionals feel about technology, what they have available to use or offer, and what they are capable and not capable of doing.

It then considers perspectives of the market environment around technology, with a focus on challenges faced from the tech provider and prospective buyer, before considering what people would like to see addressed or supported in a Health Foundation programme, and how. It concludes with a summary analysis and recommendations.