Embodying Autonomy in a Home Telecare Service

Abstract

increasing ageing population. 2 Telecare, actually, has now turned into a technical solution broad enough to manage many different kinds of problems, from health problems to social problems, and is adaptable enough to take into account individual and very contextual necessities (see Koch, 2006), enabling elderly people to maintain their independent lifestyle as long as possible (see Milligan et al., 2006). Despite a wide variety of contexts of application and technological