ArticleBMC geriatrics2022
Family caregivers' involvement in caring for frail older family members using welfare technology: a qualitative study of home care in transition.
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- Patient and Carer-Related Facilitators and Barriers to the Adoption of Assistive Technologies for the Care of Older Adults: Systematic Review.JMIR aging · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of health education applying role play on decision making in acute myocardial infarction situation among older adults in community.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- The application of welfare technology in preventing solitary death among frail older adults who have lost their only child: A qualitative study based on the experiences of home help service providers.Dialogues in health · 2026Article
- Beyond technical access in digital eldercare: how ethical lag shapes stratified responsiveness to institutional welfare in rural China.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Development of a Hospital-at-Home Digital Twin for Patients With Frailty: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- The needs of the family caregivers of patients with end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a qualitative study in Iran.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Experiences with home monitoring technology in older adults with traumatic brain injury: a qualitative study.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
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- Views of Family Members Who Take Care of an Elderly Person they Live with on Ageism, Spirituality and Death in Turkey: A Qualitative Approach.Journal of religion and health · 2023Article
- Stakeholder perspectives on the preferred service ecosystem for senior citizens living at home: a qualitative interview study.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundDemographic, 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.
methodThe 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.
resultsThe 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.
conclusionsCo-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.
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