Window work: Screen-based eldercare and professional precarity at the welfare frontier

Associate professor Kristina Grünenberg, and assistant professor Line Hillersdal have in collaboration with Jonas Winther contributed to International Journal of Ageing and Later Life with the article 'Window work: Screen-based eldercare and professional precarity at the welfare frontier'.

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among elderly citizens and healthcare workers in Denmark during the early phases of the corona crisis, the article explores the introduction of screen-based technologies in eldercare and their implications.

The study particularly focus on what health professionals must do, to accomplish meaningful encounters through screens. In this context, the concept of 'window work' is introduced to highlight how screens are active participants in care and how they frame and delimit what health practitioners can see, do and achieve in everyday care practices in significant and often unpredictable ways.

The article is published in volume 15, issue 2 of the International Journal of Ageing and Later Life.

Link to the publication: Window work: Screen-based eldercare and professional precarity at the welfare frontier