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General Digital Competence | Enabling Digital Competence | Care Specific Digital Competence | |
Acceptance | Adaptation | Progression | Support |
5.1 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 5.4 |
5 Acceptance |
5.1 Role of digital competence in care work |
Understanding the role of digital competence in care work; understanding how different kinds of digital technology can support care workers in their profession as well as care recipients in their daily lives; realising the benefits and challenges of implementing ICT in social care. |
5.2 Inception and promotion |
Bringing digital competence and technology into own work practices; clarifying the advantages of digital technology to care recipients; introducing various types and possibilities of digital activity to care recipients; inspiring interest in ICT. |
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5.3 Encouragement and confidence building |
Overcoming psychological obstacles to the implementation of digital technology in care work such as the fear and mistrust of technology, low self-esteem and lack of interest; encouraging care recipients to gradually discover ICT-based activities; building confidence. |
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5.4 Sustainability |
Ensuring user-friendliness and adequacy of digital technology used by the care recipient; avoiding over-complexity; observing sustainable user development; preventing discouragement and loss of interest. |