Older persons and relatives’ experience of coordinated care planning via a video meeting

AIM: The study aimed to describe coordinated care planning via a video meeting from the perspective of older persons and their relatives. DESIGN: A qualitative inductive research design was used to describe older persons and relatives’ experience of care planning via video meeting. METHODS: Eight unstructured interviews were conducted. Purposive sampling resulted in a sample of four older persons and four relatives. The material was analysed by qualitative content analysis. RESULTS: The theme being excluded illustrates how the older persons and their relatives experienced care planning via a video meeting as lack of a personal relationship, meaninglessness and lack of participation. The older persons and their relatives had a feeling of being excluded and in an unfamiliar situation. Lack of information about the meeting's structure and content impaired their ability to prepare for it beforehand, which led to uncertainty.