Integrating Welfare Technology in Long-term Care Services: Nationwide Cross-sectional Survey Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Welfare technologies are often described as a solution to the increasing pressure on primary health care services. However, despite initiating welfare technology projects in the health care sector and different government incentives, research indicates that it is difficult to integrate welfare technology innovations in a complex and varying setting, such as long-term care.

Objective

We aim to describe the types of welfare technology and the extent to which welfare technology is provided in long-term care (ie, nursing homes and home care services); examine whether the extent of welfare technology provision differs on the basis of municipal characteristics (ie, population size, centrality, the proportion of older inhabitants, and income); and identify how local gove

SUBMITTER: Rostad HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8406104 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature