ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors foreground the relationships people have with everyday technologies, particularly digital technologies, and consider how everyday technologies of today and the future have the potential to transform the meaning and nature of care and citizenship at home. They primarily concern the relationships people have with everyday technologies and the support that individuals and families are likely to need to access and use them. The chapter introduces the idea of technological care and citizenship by outlining the relational context before recounting two real-life stories of various technologies being used to enable a person with a dementia to live at home. The authors discuss how various technologies, particularly digital technologies, are enhancing both self-care and family-care. They also review more of the technological focused research in the context of citizenship, meaning that attention is paid to how technologies support a person's right 'to live the life they choose and to be included in their community'.
