One of the promises of telecare technologies is that healthcare will move partly from the hospital to the home. Telecare technologies are expected to extend the clinical gaze to non-clinical spaces and to nonprofessionals, that is, patients. These novel technologies thus follow the path of home-care and self-care technologies by taking diagnostic and monitoring procedures outside the hospital and bringing them into patients’ homes. As described in the first chapter, there is, however, a major difference between telecare and other home-care technologies. Because telecare technologies are ICT-based, the home becomes electronically connected and integrated within a wider network of healthcare, including telemedical centres, hospitals, and general practitioners’ rooms.
Home is not a Machine, Home is for People. Home is an emotionally charged and personally furnished cradle of living — physical space as much as social-cultural context and a state of mind.
(Friedewald and Da Costa, 2003, p. 18)
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Oudshoorn, N. (2011). Inspecting Bodies and Coping with Disease at Home. In: Telecare Technologies and the Transformation of Healthcare. Health, Technology and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230348967_8
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