Impact on person's life |
barrier, phone, old, age |
Relative 2: ‘How are you going to be connected to the phone, if you have any problems walking?’ |
Barriers |
Limited financial resources and troubles with technical gadgets |
[10,42] |
Patient 3: ‘People closest to the progressive forms are older. … Handling of a smartphone is more complicated for them.’ |
Nurse 2: ‘Patients may not like it so much, not by age. Some older patients handle their smartphones phenomenally.’ |
application, medication, diagnosis |
Patient 7: ‘The application, having to connect it to the socks and so on, wouldn't affect me either.’ |
Drivers |
Proactive attitude |
[90] |
Nurse 1: ‘All of this will help us to know how patients are really doing and, based on that, we can give them a medication.’ |