ABSTRACT

In this chapter, we move on to the adoption of Vivago-Wristcare in the life of elderly people and in the work of their caregivers in assisted living. We fi rst examine the work and life projects of residents, nurses, and managers and the versions of technology in practice that each group came to enact. These projects, in turn, were affected by how the technology was deployed, and to this aim we compare two implementations of the Vivago-Wristcare system. After this, we fast-forward from the year 2001 to the years 20062009 to see how the impact of the technology has changed when it was used as a component to construct a new type of setting for the elderly.