title: Digital skills training in care homes: achievement.
abstract: This article describes digital skills training (DST) for staff and later, residents, as part of a programme of culture change in a large care home with nursing in Glasgow. It presents the successes and challenges arising from DST from the perspectives of the two volunteer information technology (IT) champions (Thomas Sloan and John Thomson), who were also staff members. Using their written reports, questionnaires and subsequent conversations, the IT champions recall the challenges and gains for staff and residents as a result of their initial training. This is supplemented by a follow-up on IT activities in the 18 months after the introduction period.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Technology Enabled Health Research, Coventry University.
authors.forename: Deidre
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wild
authors.affiliation: Edinburgh Napier University.
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kydd
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001292:Attitude to Computers; D003197:Computer Literacy; D003200:Computer User Training; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D009735:Nursing Homes; D012606:Scotland
keywords: care home; champions; digital skills training; information technology; older people