Care technologies for ageing societies: setting the scene

This introductory chapter reviews and positions this edited book’s underpinning concepts of care, technology and sustainability. It defines the editors’ and contributors’ cross-national, comparative analytical approach to characterise the ‘state-of-the-art’ within each nation and evaluate thematic areas of policy and practice divergence and convergence. It concludes by presenting nations included in this volume (England, Australia, Germany, Canada and Japan) and justifying their selection with reference to contemporary research on their orientation to care regime and welfare regime typologies.