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Benefits of telecare have been lower than expected partly because of the social aspects in homes. This paper examines how social aspects are dealt with in telecare design. The objective is to provide guidelines on how social aspects can be captured and applied when designing telecare. A pilot study was conducted in a telecare provider domain to determine how social aspects encountered were dealt with...