“…teleconferences, telecare, mobile phones, and portals) can improve social connectedness (Åkerberg, Söderlund, and Lindén 2017), and devices such as blood pressure meters, glucometers, and weighing scales can improve health and increase activity levels Moors 2015, Gherardi 2010) In Scandinavia, the term that is used-welfare technology-is a policy concept that was launched to promote digitalisation (Bygstad and Lanestedt 2017). Welfare technology is described as the knowledge and use of technology that can maintain and/or increase the feeling of safety, activity, participation, and independence for a person (any age) who has or is at increased risk of having/developing a disability (Hagen 2011, Modig 2012, Hofmann 2013, Bygstad and Lanestedt 2017, Kilbourn and Bay 2010, Corneliussen and Dyb 2017, Östlund et al 2015.…”