2025: A Future of Care

In workshops conducted in early 2019 with those on the frontline of social care, we imagined a positive social care future, with empowered, trained staff who had the time and resources to listen to the people they support and work with them to identify problems and proactively find solutions. These ideas are explored in 2025: A Future of Care, a short film we developed with Superflux (superflux.in/#). The film features Pam, a woman who has suffered a stroke in her 60s, Nadia, a care professional in her late 50s, and Yanni, a younger tech support worker with a physical disability. They use a variety of new technologies - driverless cars and medication reminders, telepresence robots and voice activated smart homes - to come up with creative solutions to practical and bureaucratic challenges. Their world isn’t perfect and resources aren’t limitless, but with support to retrain and to access work, with longer flexible care visits, everyone’s skills and ingenuity can be part of the solution, and trust and friendships can form. All of our performers had personal experience of receiving social care services, providing unpaid care or working in the care sector. Preferred citation: Superflux (2019) '2025: A Future of Care'. London: Doteveryone.

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