Elderly people´s usage of digital health careservices

During the pandemic the elderly were a vulnerable group with higher risk of gettingseriously sick when exposed to the corona virus. To limit their physical interaction with people, and limit the risk of infection, digital health care could be a good complement to the physical health care. This paper aims to create a better understanding for how the elderly people are using digital health care and how we can change the technology behind the services to make it easier for them to understand and use it. By using semi-structured interviews with five participants in the age between 62-82 it was discovered that the technology was not a barrier for them. The reason they did not choose digitalhealth care in most cases when seeking treatment was because they preferred the face-to-face interaction with professionals. The participants did not have any obstacles regarding the technology to seek digital health care. This paper sheds light on the importance of these types of studies since it was hard to get participants since not many have ever tried seeking digital health care. Further studies are needed to better understand the elderly people´s use of digital health care and how the technology can be improved