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‘Thanks to technology’: discourse, care and technology in England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2025

Grace Whitfield Open the ORCID record for Grace Whitfield [Opens in a new window]  and
Kate Hamblin Open the ORCID record for Kate Hamblin [Opens in a new window]
Grace Whitfield
Affiliation:
ESRC Centre for Care, Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities (CIRCLE), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Kate Hamblin*
Affiliation:
ESRC Centre for Care, Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities (CIRCLE), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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Corresponding author: Kate Hamblin; Email: k.a.hamblin@sheffield.ac.uk
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Abstract

Discourses and how they construct policy ‘problems’ delimit ‘solutions’, including the scale, shape and structure of services. This article discusses how the adult social care sector in England is presented as a policy problem, with the greater use of technology the associated ‘common-sense’ solution – both to the ‘crisis of care’ in a society with an ageing population and as a means to stimulate the national economy. It draws upon critical discourse analysis to examine English policy documents and other government texts published between 2020 and 2022. In doing so, it de-objectivises and de-universalises semiotic claims around care and technology and explores omitted alternatives. In discourse, ageing and care are framed as both problems to be solved and opportunities for entrepreneurship. Technologies are bound together with efficiency, with limited exploration of how use of the former necessarily entails the latter. Technology is, in addition, presented as agentic, inevitable and unassailable, closing off debates as to whether other, less seemingly ‘innovative’ options for reform and change could entail more favourable outcomes. Discourse thus limits the role of the state to stimulating the environment required for technological advancement.

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Ageing & Society , First View , pp. 1 - 27
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