1. Welfare technology in Finland
Nina Eskola-Salin

2. Challenges in Finland
• Ageing population
• Increased demand of services
• Urbanisation
• Accumulation of social and health problems; poverty, unemployment, poor
health, poor mental health (10 % of population are using 80 % of social and
health care resources)
• Increasing inequalities
Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland

3. The Aims of increasing the wellfare
technology usage in Finland
• Enable the rise of citizens
• Citizen empowerment
• Create selfcare and own care services
• Citizens can do things themselves
• Citizens can produce information electronically for the use of themselves
and professionals
• To help people to live longer at home
• To help people to be more independent
• To improve safety and quality of nursing and care
• To release caregivers time
• To make caregivers work easier and lighter

4. Renewal of services must be supported by ICTsolutions!
Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland

5. eHealth in Finland 2015
Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland
• My Kanta pages - portal to your own medical records and electronic prescriptions!
http://www.kanta.fi/en/omakanta

6. Finland is a Small Giant of Medical Technology

7. Welfare technology today and tomorrow
• Fitness trackers with wrist- based heart
rate
• Care watches with care phones, call
systems, automatic alarm systems,
wandering detection and continuous
well-being monitoring
• GPS-trackers
• Computers, mobile “smart phones and
tablets”
• Personalised electronic patient record,
remote monitoring
• Intelligent household appliances
(fridge,stove..), floors, beds
• Wearable technology
• Invisible technology
• Care robots, automatic medicine
dispensers...
• 3D printing
• Personalization of technology, total / all-
inclusive solutions
• etc...

8. WelfareTechnology
Studies in Finland
Nina Eskola-Salin Tredu

9. Welfare Technology Studies
in Finland
• Master level and Bachelor level
• Wellbeing Technology: Master of Health Care
or Master of Engineering
• Health Sciences: Medical and Wellness
Technology
• Information and Communication Sciences:
Health Technology
• Vocational education
• Test Croups and curriculum in Technology:
Electrical Engineering and Automation
Technology, Information and
Telecommunication Technology, Metalwork
and Machinery
• Opitional vocational module “Welfare
Technology for Practical Nurses” 15 ecvet
points

10. Hanako network - Health technology group
- Planed and accomplished the opitional vocational module “Welfare
Technology for Practical Nurses”
- 15 ecvet points
- Got the “Welfare Technology” -module to be included the national curriculum
- Schedule
- Planning - Autum 2015 to Autum 2016
- Interviews for teachers and worklife representatives
- What Welfare Technology we already have, what we will have in 5-10 years?
- What are the skills needs in future?
- What are the evaluation criteria?
- First course for practical nurses started in Tredu in Spring 2017

11. Views of content and implementation for welfare
technology studies
• Diverse learning opportunities and environments
• E-learning
• Projects within worklife - regional, national and international
• On-the-job-learning and training - regional, national and international
• Peer learning
• Social and Health Care – Technology, Vocational School Tredu - Tampere University of
Applied Sciences
• Students
• Teachers
• International Partners
• School, Worklife, Business companies

12. Views of welfare technology in studies
• The aim of welfare technology is to maintain and improve Health and Capability of physical,
psychological and social functioning and condition by using technology and ICT
• Clients: Child, Young, Adult, Aged, Healthy, Sick, Disabled, Rehabilitee
• Life-Based Design
• The additional value that technology brings to user
• Technology should not exist not for itself, but rather for bringing added value and improving
the quality of people’s life
• Division of Welfare technology usage
• Welfare technology in evaluating and monitoring health and capability
• Welfare technology in supporting independent life
• Welfare technology in maintaining and increasing safety
• Welfare technology in improving social interaction, involvement and participation

13. Competence and Attitude Practical Nurses
needs in Future
• Basic skills to use technology. Ability and intrest to learn more.
• Guidance skills: To guide to use technology, to guide to find welfare
technology services
• Skills to assessment clients´ needs
• Skills to motivate and encourage clients to use technology
• The courage and open-mindedness of professionals to use welfare
technology
• To use existing technology in new ways.
• Clients viewpoints highlighting, usability, User-friendliness

14. in Tredu

15. Welfare center The Pearl of Tredu
● Activity Centre for elderly, disabled people, people
with memory disorders etc.
● Peer-Group: caregivers ,patient groups, parents of
small children etc.
● Lectures for client and patient groups
● Childcare, Family club, Morning and Afternoon Club for
school children etc.
● Health Kiosk (Blood pressure, blood glucose…)
● Technology Advice ”Center”: some-support, electronic
services etc.
● Services provided to homes
● Hairdressing and beautician services
● Pedicure
● Restaurant services
Services for clients

16. ”Simulation Home”

17. ”Win – win- win” -plan
● Business companies gives
– The latest technology to the learning environment
– Guidance for the use of equipment/ product
● Business companies gets
– Possibility to present and market their products
– Modern learning environment for their own customer events
– The full package for their meetings
– Future experts with positive attitude towards wellfare technology
– Testing environment, living lab, customer feedback of usability etc.

18. The school and students gets
● Modern, updated learning environment where the latest health / welfare
technology can be used in teaching and simulations
● Close cooperation with business companies, labor and customers enables
updated information for teachers and students:
– of the needs of customers and working life
– of the trends and future plans of well-being technology development

19. Kiitos, Dank Je, Aitäh
Arigatō,ありがとう!