Boxes bloom on screen.
One box stays black. 
‘I don’t get the camera to work,’ a voice, somewhere.
No one responds. 

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Names in sans-serif. 
Someone is just called D.

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We are here to discuss a report. 
A municipality wants cost reduction 
and optimisation of care. 
Prevent the old from ageing. 

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The solution: digital strategies. 
Apps. Remote monitoring. Streamlining contact.

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Someone calls it ‘efficiency’,
as if it was a kind word.
Someone says ‘older adults’ 
like they are not in the room –
because they are not.
They never were.

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No one mentions hunger for touch.
No one mentions human connection.
Well, I do. 
Someone says those are important points.

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‘But can we improve the report?’

 

One woman floats in a blurred background. 
She sits nowhere. 

 

I look at my own face –
it looks older now. 

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I mute my microphone. 
Take a bite so no one hears.

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Is this also my future?
My optimisation of health and ageing –
sitting in front of
boxes.