IntroductionDigital health strategies have expanded in home care, particularly in home-based primary care (HBPC) following the increase in the older adult population and the need to respond to the higher demand of chronic conditions and health frailties of this population. There was an even greater demand with COVID-19 and subsequent isolation/social distancing measures for this group considered at risk. The objective of this study is to map digital health strategies and analyze their impacts on the quality of home-based primary care for older adults around the world.Methods and analysisThis is a scoping review protocol which will enable a rigorous, transparent and reliable synthesis of knowledge. The review will be developed in the theoretical perspective of Arksey and O’malley, with updates by Levac et al. and Peters et al., based on the Joanna Briggs Institute manual, and guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). Data from white literature will be extracted from multidisciplinary health databases such as: the Virtual Health Library, LILACS, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, CINAHL and Embase; while Google Scholar will be used for gray literature. The quantitative data will be analyzed through descriptive statistics and qualitative data through thematic analysis. The results will be submitted to stakeholder consultation for preliminary sharing of study findings, identification of gaps, effective dissemination strategies and suggestions for future studies.Ethics and disclosureStakeholder consultation was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Hospital Onofre Lopes, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, CAEE 54853921.0.0000.5292, and will not involve direct patient participation. It is registered in the Open Science Framework (OSF) (https://osf.io/vgkhy/). The results will be disseminated through publication in open access scientific journals, in scientific events and academic and community journals.Scoping review registration OSF:https://osf.io/vgkhy/. DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/VGKHY.This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Strengths and limitations of this studyThis scoping review will be the first to explore the types, uses and impacts of digital health strategies on home-based primary care (HBPC) for older adults around the world.The geographic mapping of the studies will provide a global overview of the use of digital health strategies in providing home care.The search strategy for studies will be broad, including the main multidisciplinary health databases and gray literature.The expansion of the use of digital health strategies during COVID-19 may be a limiting factor to the scientific quality of studies.A large number of publications in the gray literature may imply an important limitation of the study but also meaning that digital home care still lacks maturity.
