It is a matter of convenience: why welfare technologies have become domesticated in Swedish eldercare.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The use of welfare technology is gaining ground in municipal eldercare and is increasingly being integrated into everyday routines. However, the meanings that eldercare personnel attach to welfare technology in the care of older recipients, and thus the domestication of welfare technology, remain largely underexplored. This study explores how eldercare personnel understand and ascribe meanings to welfare technologies in their daily work, with the aim of understanding their domestication.

Methods

The empirical material comprised 181 photographs, each paired with corresponding text, from 61 participants across four municipalities in southern Sweden. The empirical material was thematically analysed, focusing on different categories of welfare technologies and their a

SUBMITTER: Frennert S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11629506 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature