Kela, OmaKanta and Keva
If you are student in Finland, you can get quite different kind of monetary supports. I am a student. I use some supports, for example, I have to pay health care fee, so I am able to use Finnish student healt service. I can also eat cheaper in student restaurants.
I have two daughters, so we get child benefits. Both of our daughters have long-term diseases which means that we get disability support from the Kela. Our whole family has European health care card. Kela will send us a new card in every two years.
I get access in the OmaKanta with my bank ID and with mobile checking. I have use OmaKanta. For example, I have checked my laboratory results and I have used Covid-19 vaccinate certification.
Lowest retirement age is for me 66 years and 9month, I didn´t get any answer about trying to but my retired age at 63 years. My goal retirement age is 69 years and one month. But if I worked until I am 70, I will get about 20% more pension than at lowest retirement age. This 70 years retirement sound little bit scary, because the high age. I hope I am in good shape and stay healthy until I reach that age.
Online shopping
I am not so good at online shopping. But I have use online shopping for clothes and running shoes, but you must know what you are buying especially from shoes. I have tried shoes in local shops before I buy shoes from the online shops. The prices might be lower in online shops than locally. I have bought some clothes from online shops, but usually I liked to see product before I decided to buy.
I visit first time in eBay and in Amazon. I have used Booking and Trivago for book a hotel room. But today I usually book a room directly from the hotel website. Sometimes prices are lower in the hotel website than from wide digital travel company website, but it is good that you can compare prices before making decision. I think these worlds online marketplaces are reliable to buy things. If somebody does not use virtual services, they might get lower prices to compare. Sometimes you have less choices, but I think it is good to support local shops.
Service/application from my field
I work at virtual home care in Kuopio, the program we use is VideoVisit. We use VideoVisit for contact our customers. There is a possibility to use this program also for family meetings. This means that customers close ones can use this program like professionals’ use. I think this is good to get close ones to be involved in the customer’s care. Video will tell more than just a call. There is possibility to have group meetings also. Those group meetings can be with professionals, or they can be for example cultural events. I think virtual home care or video meetings give more opportunities to make different kind of care to our customers.
Digital gap
I will tell you example about digital gap; My mum is over 70 years old and she doesn´t have internet access or smart phone. I think she is fine with that, but I have noticed that some things might be easier to do if she has those. She pays her bills in payment machine. She will call, if she needs a vaccinate. When she called Covid vaccinate, she waited one hour to get contact to the nurse. If she needs some help or some information, she will find that form the newspaper or she will call to someone who knows. My mum don´t have any interest to learn to use smart phone or internet. I don’t think she want to learn any digital skills. She will call me or my brother if she needs help.
My mum is not the only one who don´t have internet access or smart phones. I think they might be excluded from some information. But I also think that sometimes is good that we have times to get space from social media.
Digital Competence Test
Digital competences test was interesting. My result was ok, and it looks like me. I have some difficulties with digitalization and production, but my best result was communication. I think I am medium digitalization expert 🙂
Self- reflection
This part of the course was also interesting. This part has lot of familiar things for me, but there was lot of new information about digitalization. It is good to thinking these things different point of view; how I use digitization in my workplace, how in spare time.
I commented these blogs:
DIGI CITIZEN – Anniina´s Blog (savonia.fi)
DIGI CITIZEN – Homemade Digital Health (savonia.fi)
Digi Citizen | Kliinisen hoitoyön asiantuntija, palliatiivinen hoito YAMK opinnot (savonia.fi)