Background: Demographic, economic and organisational changes challenge home care services. Increased use of welfare technology and involvement of family members as co-producers of care are political initiatives to meet these challenges. However, these initiatives also involve ethical aspects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Public home care for the elderly is a key area in relation to improving health care quality. It is an important political goal to increase elderly people's involvement in their care and in the use of welfare technology. The aim of this study was to explore elderly service users' experience of user involvement in the implementation and everyday use of welfare technology in public home care services.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims And Objectives: The aim of this study is to learn more about factors that promote or inhibit user involvement among health professionals when implementing welfare technology in home care services.
Background: It is a health policy goal to increase the use of welfare technology in order to address some of the challenges that healthcare services are facing. Health professionals' involvement is important for the successful implementation of welfare technology in home care services.
This paper focuses on the experiences of nursing students on a student-managed ward, the purpose of which was to empower students for the nursing role. Five nursing students operated and managed a nursing home ward for eight weeks during their final year of nursing education. The students claimed that a group of five students was beneficial.
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