SAFE@HOME: Technologies of care for aging migrants

The project will examine how the “Live Safely at Home” reform functions when it encounters diverse ageing lives, families, and everyday practices that fall outside the standard models of municipal services.

Norway’s “Live Safely at Home” reform aims to enable more older people to remain living at home for longer. The reform assumes that the home, the family, and the local community can take on a greater share of care work — and that municipal services meet people where they are.

However, the homes, families, and everyday lives of older people with migrant backgrounds do not always follow the patterns on which these services are built.

SAFE@HOME investigates how the reform engages with everyday life in transnational households. We follow three scales — from bedroom to city council chamber — and map the frictions and qualities that arise when municipal care encounters diverse ageing lives.