Research environment
This study was conducted in home care in Eastern Finland. Home care there is organized with different service providers, such as municipal home care services [In this study, the collaboration organization operating in a rural region has 800 home care professionals with 1,500 older home care clients. In Finland, home care focused on care provided within older clients’ homes and consisted of several home care professionals with several clients. In practice, there is no own-nurse system and therefore, the different professionals visit the same clients’ homes. In the year 2021, the organization purchased 110 robots for medication management. The use of robots for medication management in home care has been implemented in some areas within the region, with the future goal of providing access to all that are able to use them. The aim is to decrease home care professionals’ home visits and increase older home care clients’ safe medication management [