Temporal orientations of the care practitioners
| Temporal orientation in care practitioners’ agency | Past (2 cases) | Present (3 cases) | Future (2 cases) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long-term orientations manifested in interviews of the care practitioners | Seeing technologies disturbing the interaction with the client and taking too much attention, seeing the old way of caring more valuable | Seeing technologies increasing in care, and being forced to use it, trying to see its pros and cons | Seeing all kinds of technologies good for care and improving older adults lives, thus trying to learn to use it |
| Temporal orientation and relations to mobile record keeping manifested in client visits | Opposing expressing resistance to mobile-record keeping, sometimes using paper and pen as back in the days, sharing frustration against the mobile-recording with the client | Adapting silently adapting to the mobile record-keeping, trying not to disturb the interaction with the client by reconciling it into care | Engaging using mobile phone in an open way, telling aloud what is documented and taking care even the client’s technologies |
| Implications to future of care and its technologization | Open critique of the technologies in use may slow down the implementation of new technologies in care, and may lead into re-evaluating its consequences for care if it is heard in the organization | Implementation of technologies is not received with enthusiasm, and implicit tensions between ethically sustainable care and technology-aided care exists | Technology helps clients to live their autonomous lives and keep them socially connected, care is seen as technology intensive in the future, and the vision accelerates the technologization of care |
| Temporal orientation in care practitioners’ agency | Past (2 cases) | Present (3 cases) | Future (2 cases) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long-term orientations manifested in interviews of the care practitioners | Seeing technologies disturbing the interaction with the client and taking too much attention, seeing the old way of caring more valuable | Seeing technologies increasing in care, and being forced to use it, trying to see its pros and cons | Seeing all kinds of technologies good for care and improving older adults lives, thus trying to learn to use it |
| Temporal orientation and relations to mobile record keeping manifested in client visits | |||
| Implications to future of care and its technologization | Open critique of the technologies in use may slow down the implementation of new technologies in care, and may lead into re-evaluating its consequences for care if it is heard in the organization | Implementation of technologies is not received with enthusiasm, and implicit tensions between ethically sustainable care and technology-aided care exists | Technology helps clients to live their autonomous lives and keep them socially connected, care is seen as technology intensive in the future, and the vision accelerates the technologization of care |
Source(s): Authors’ own work
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