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Articles | Volume 79, issue 2
Articles | Volume 79, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-177-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-177-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 79, issue 2
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03 Jun 2024
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Die räumliche Produktion von Alternsbildern durch Smart-Home-Technologien

Marlene Hobbs and Linda Pasch

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Smart home technologies promote ageing in place as solution for the care crisis in ageing societies. Based on an ethnographic investigation in technology showrooms and interviews with developers, we show how smart home technologies construct images of active age on the one hand, and dependent old age on the other. We show that images of ageing are also spatial constructions that idealize the home as a place of active age and devalue the nursing home as a place of old age.
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