Imagining the Future -enabling technology Feedback and Presentation Event. Glasgow, Friday 8 March 2013.

1. Imagining the Future - enabling technology
Feedback and Presentation Event
“Changes in society, opinion,
politics & values - impact on
technology advances that are unknown”
Kevin Doughty
Co-Director, Centre for Usable Home Technologies
University of York and Newcastle University
Alliance Hub, Venlaw Building, Bath Street, Glasgow
Friday, 8th March, 2013

2. Issues to be Addressed
• What is social work? • The High Street
• Who will need social work? • Privacy
• Demography • Data protection and sharing
• Chronic disease burden • Information sharing
• The Welfare State • Connecting with people
• Disability • Downloading everything
• Who and Where are the • Health and well-being
Workers? • Attitudes to public health
• Service provision issues – obesity, smoking,
• Finding people who don’t fit alcohol abuse, drugs
• Big data and the Big • Attitudes to surveillance
Society • Attitudes to driving

3. What is Social Work?
Social work is a professional and academic discipline that
seeks to improve the quality of life and wellbeing of an
individual, group, or community by intervening through
research, policy, community organizing, direct practice, and
teaching on behalf of those afflicted with poverty or any real or
perceived social injustices and violations of their human rights.
Research is often focused on areas such as human
development, social policy, public administration,
psychotherapy, program evaluation, and international and
community development. Social workers are organized into
local, national, continental and international professional
bodies. Social work, an interdisciplinary field, includes theories
from economics, education, sociology, medicine, philosophy,
politics, anthropology, and psychology.

4. Who Will Need Social Work Help?
Some of the people who might need the support or
advice of social workers include:
• Older people who are unable to perform some ADLs
• Families who are unable to cope
• Cared for children
• Families with problems
• People with physical, sensory or learning disabilities
• People with Mental health problems
• Teenagers leaving care
• Recently released prisoners
• Those with a drug, alcohol or substance abuse problem
• Victims of social injustice
• Vulnerable adults facing abuse
• People without capacity
• Those who are socially excluded

5. 7 Domains of Social Exclusion

6. Demography

7. Chronic Disease Burden

8. Older People Are Challenged
by Multiple Conditions
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9. The Welfare State

10. Attitude to Disability

11. Who and Where are the Workers?
• Domiciliary carers
• Care Managers
• Support workers
• Personal assistants

12. Service Provision and Response
• Profiling
• Assessment
• Provision
• Maintenance

13. Digital Reminiscence Therapy
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14. Finerday Reminiscence System
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15. Memaxi System
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16. Finding People Who Don’t Fit

17. Big Data and a Big Society

18. The High Street
City centre vs.
Retail Park vs
Online

19. Personal Privacy

21. Data Protection

22. Information Sharing

23. Connecting with People or Friends

24. Downloading Everything
– Data Overload

25. Health and Well-being

26. Attitudes to Public Health Issues
• Smoking cessation
• Alcohol and drug abuse
• Sexually transmitted disease
• Obesity
• Influenza

27. Attitudes to Surveillance

28. Attitudes to Driving
• Should older people be allowed to drive?