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dc.contributor.authorKnutsen, Ingrid Ruud
dc.contributor.authorFossum, Mariann
dc.contributor.authorChristiansen, Karin
dc.contributor.authorHalvorsen, Kristin
dc.coverage.spatialsouth-eastern Norwayen_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-22T11:56:30Z
dc.date.available2022-04-22T11:56:30Z
dc.date.created2022-04-20T07:33:39Z
dc.date.issued2022-03-18
dc.identifier.issn1471-2318
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2992294
dc.description.abstractBackground: 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. Method: The aim of this qualitative study was to explore family caregivers’ experience of involvement and possible ethical aspects of caring for frail older family members receiving home care services supported by welfare technology. This study used a qualitative explorative and descriptive design within a phenomenological-hermeneutical approach. Sixteen interviews with eighteen family caregivers were conducted. The participants were sons, daughters, siblings and spouses of frail older people receiving home care services with the support of welfare technology. Data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. The COREQ checklist was used. Results: The analysis led to five main themes. First, the family caregivers’ experienced caring as meaningful but increasingly demanding concerning the changes in home care services. Second, they experienced a change in relationships, roles, tasks, and responsibilities related to more family involvement and the use of welfare technology. This also challenged their sense of autonomy. However, welfare technology helped them deal with responsibilities, especially safety. The family caregivers requested early involvement, dialogue for care decisions, more cooperation and support from health professionals. Third, the participants experienced that health professionals decided the conditions for co-production without discussion. Their need for information and knowledge about welfare technology were not met. Fourth, the family caregivers felt that the health professionals did not adequately recognise their unique knowledge of the care receiver and did not use this knowledge for customising the welfare technology to the care receiver and their families. Fifth, the family caregivers expressed concern about service and welfare technology inequality in home care services. Conclusions: Co-production in the involvement of family caregivers in care is still not an integral part of home care service. Welfare technology was appreciated, but the family caregivers called for early involvement to ensure successful and safe implementation and use. More attention needs to be given to ethical concerns about the change in relations, transfer of tasks and responsibility, and risk of inequality.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis project has been made possible by the Dam Foundation through the Norwegian Health Association.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBMCen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBMC Geriatrics;22, Article number: 223 (2022)
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectCaregiversen_US
dc.subjectThe elderlyen_US
dc.subjectHome careen_US
dc.subjectAssistive technologyen_US
dc.subjectWelfare technologyen_US
dc.titleFamily caregivers’ involvement in caring for frail older family members using welfare technology: a qualitative study of home care in transitionen_US
dc.title.alternativeFamily caregivers’ involvement in caring for frail older family members using welfare technology: a qualitative study of home care in transitionen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holder© The Author(s) 2022en_US
dc.source.articlenumber223en_US
cristin.ispublishedtrue
cristin.fulltextoriginal
cristin.qualitycode1
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-02890-2
dc.identifier.cristin2017725
dc.source.journalBMC Geriatricsen_US
dc.source.volume22en_US
dc.source.pagenumber1-14en_US


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