New technologies may have a beneficial impact on long-term care (LTC) systems by improving
the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of LTC provision, and even by decreasing the need for LTC in the
first place. Given the great uncertainty about the diffusion and implementation of available technology, there
is little point in trying to make quantitative forecasts about the impact of technology. A more useful approach
is to study the mechanisms through which technology can have an impact on LTC. This is the subject of
Work Package 4 of the ANCIEN project. Both generally and via a number of case studies, it develops a
framework to analyse the impact of technology on LTC. The functioning of this framework is illustrated by
considering a number of specific long-term conditions, such as dementia, obesity and diabetes
