Community Health Care Workers’ Experiences on Enacting Policy on Technology with Citizens with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia

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Table 1 Examples of Analysis Process

Quotation	Our Understanding	Main Themes	Subthemes
I watched a program from Sweden about a nurse who used Skype to keep in touch with quite a few users. To tell them to take their medicine or measure their blood sugar level, this and this and that. Just one nurse looking after many users. It was wonderful to see. One nurse can do all this, instead of sending 20 nurses to 20 places. Wonderful to see.	Enthusiastic about new telehealth technology that offers new ways of caring and which may be more cost-effective	Current and future potentials of technology	Cost-effectiveness
[.] you also notice things when you are there [in the client’s home]. Very short of breath today, or the fridge is empty. […] And when talking, are things going better or worse? Is someone lonely? You usually have to know someone to know whether they are lonely. Maybe [technology is suitable] for those who provide the service, but not so much for those who receive it. Because I think they will want human contact or to get activated a little. […] So – technology, a robot? What can you do with someone with high degree of dementia? That I do not know.	Social contact vs technology	Current and future potentials of technology	“To be there” for social contact
It is very erratic. Someone can suddenly say in a report – “oh, he needs this and that, can we order it”? Then someone does something about it. But there are no procedures for doing this for all [citizens].	Routines for assessing user needs for technology is erratic.	Barriers to implement technologies	Unsystematic approaches and contested responsibilities

Table 2 Overview Over Themes and Sub-Themes

Main Themes	Subthemes
Current and future potentials of technology	Frequently used technology Cost-effectiveness “To be there” for social contact
Barriers to implement technologies	Unsystematic approaches and contested responsibility Limited knowledge and training Technology in relation to user-friendliness and citizens’ capacities