Paper short abstract

In this presentation, we expand upon the concept of a digital doppelganger (Lauridsen 2015) and explore its application in the context of Danish nursing home care.

Paper long abstract

This presentation investigates the creation and use of digital proxies of nursing homes residents in municipal eldercare in Copenhagen, Denmark. By using the image of a digital doppelganger (Lauridsen 2015) as a concept metaphor (Pink et. al. 2018) we analyze how decisions of care for residents in a municipal nursing home is partly based on the use and creation of digital data profiles. Serving as a proxy and 'data being' of the physical resident in decision making processes, we emphasize how the digital data profile holds an important role when care professionals are deciding on and caring out care practices. Through three ethnographic examples we highlight how the resident data profiles only offer fragmented and limited representations of the resi-dents. The article thus problematizes a risen tendency in Danish eldercare to view and use digital data as complete and objective representations of elderly citizens