Care technologies for ageing societies: key lessons

This final chapter provides a summary of the main issues identified within each of the selected nations covered in the book. It emphasises key points of convergence across these nations, including the array of care ‘systems’, internal diversity and fragmentation of such systems, prevalence of sustainability discourses, the ‘ageing in place’ agenda, precepts of ‘choice’ and ‘control’, the digital divide, and divergent and variegated responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapter and Policy Press Short conclude with recommended priorities for policymakers and practitioners and identifies areas requiring further research within the field.