Shared Care Futurestory

This audio is designed to open up reflection and dialogue about the choices, skills, and systems that can shape the future of long-term care. We invite you to close your eyes, and visualise the world being described.

Transcript

Welcome to a courtyard in 2040. Here, social care feels less like a service and more like a culture. People gather between raised garden beds; neighbours greet each other by name, everyone is and feels included.

You are Lika, a 35-year-old neighbourhood mentor. You live in a small intergenerational housing cluster. Today, you’re meeting Hana, a young programmer who volunteers in the ‘light care circle’, a flexible way to contribute when life is busy.

Together you walk to the community hub. A schedule board shows the weekly rotation: meal-prep support, digital coaching for older adults, buddy walks, emotional check-ins. Responsibilities move fluidly, shared by many.

… Later, in a dialogue circle, you talk about mutual fragility, how life sometimes overwhelms each of you. There is no shame in needing support. In this world, vulnerability doesn’t isolate; it connects.

As the sun sets, Hana thanks you for the day’s stories. ‘Caring feels lighter,’ she says, ‘when we carry it together.’ You smile, because this is the heart of Shared Care: everyone belongs, everyone contributes, everyone is cared for. The government merely facilitates: citizens and communities are the heart of the system.

About this project

This is an auditive and visual support for the future occupational profiles report, developed for ActiZ within the Care4Skills project. The full report can be requested via ActiZ. For more information contact Emmy: [email protected]