New technologies are perceived as a solution to the rising proportion of people requiring elderly care across the Nordic countries. Implementing technologies has unforeseen consequences for the content of work and the working environment. This interview-based study within Danish elderly care investigates the consequences of physical exertion for the work and occupational identities of care workers. Through analytical framework integrating positioning theory and agential realism, the study shows that new technologies in certain constellations may further synergies between the reduction of physical exertion and occupational identities, and in others may harm this relation. The study contributes to empirical knowledge about implementing technologies and to discussions of moral literacy and workarounds within care work by suggesting that the ability to openly judge and question physical and ethical consequences of employing technologies is a valuable competence for care workers and, in addition, that furthering these competences is a challenge for managers

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新的老年人护理技术（重新）配置中的职业身份和体力消耗

新技术被视为解决北欧国家日益增长的需要老年人护理的人口的解决方案。实施技术会对工作内容和工作环境产生无法预料的后果。丹麦老年护理中基于访谈的这项研究调查了体力消耗对护理人员的工作和职业身份的影响。通过将定位理论和代理现实主义相结合的分析框架，研究表明，某些星座的新技术可能会在减少体力消耗和职业身份之间进一步产生协同作用，而在其他方面可能会损害这种关系。