Views of Swedish Elder Care Personnel on Ongoing Digital Transformation: Cross-Sectional Study.

Katarina Baudin Christine Gustafsson Susanne Frennert

Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2020)

Personnel working within municipal elder care were generally very positive toward new technologies. However, both gender and age differences may influence these perspectives such as the personnel's resistance to welfare technology and patients' participation in welfare technology usage and deployment. Different levels of participation in the decision-making process regarding new technology deployment may negatively affect the overall digital transformation within municipal elder care.

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