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Acceptance and use of health information technology by community-dwelling elders

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Barriers must be addressed for these tools to be available to this growing population of elderly people, and design, education, research, and policy all play roles in addressing these barriers to acceptance and use.
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This article is published in International Journal of Medical Informatics.The article was published on 2014-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 285 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health information technology & Health technology.

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Older people, assistive technologies, and the barriers to adoption: a systematic review

TL;DR: The main barriers to the adoption of assistive technologies by older adults are generation/cohort effects and physical decline relating to aging, and negative attitudes toward technologies.
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The impact of technology on older adults' social isolation

TL;DR: Findings show that technologies can be used to reduce social isolation among seniors, however, more studies are needed to evaluate the effectiveness of new technologies.
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Aging barriers influencing mobile health usability for older adults: A literature based framework (MOLD-US)

TL;DR: This research provides a novel framework for the exploration of aging barriers and their causes influencing mHealth usability in older adults and identifies a key need for future research on motivational barriers impeding mHealth use of older adults.
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Investigating the effectiveness of technologies applied to assist seniors: A systematic literature review.

TL;DR: Assisted technologies are a reality and can be applied to improve quality of life, especially among older age groups, and more studies are needed regarding the outcome and effectiveness of these technologies.
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Mobile health technology adoption across generations: Narrowing the digital divide

TL;DR: Recommendations are provided for narrowing the m‐health digital divide through inclusive design and educational efforts to improve self‐efficacy, develop privacy literacy, and build trust, thereby ensuring that older citizens are both capable and willing to adopt.
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Trust and sources of health information: the impact of the Internet and its implications for health care providers: findings from the first Health Information National Trends Survey.

TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that 63.0% of the US adult population in 2003 reported ever going online, with 63.7% (95% CI, 61.7%-65.8%) of the online population having looked for health information for themselves or others at least once in the previous 12 months.
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Influences, usage, and outcomes of Internet health information searching: multivariate results from the Pew surveys.

TL;DR: The strongest and most consistent influences on ever, or more frequently, using the Internet to search for health information were sex (female), employment (not fulltime), engaging in more other Internet activities, more specific health reasons, and helping another deal with health issues.
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Adopting electronic medical records in primary care: Lessons learned from health information systems implementation experience in seven countries

TL;DR: The review showed that quality of care, patient safety and provider/patient relations were not, positively or negatively, affected by systems implementation, and revealed the concept of socio-technical factors, or "fit" factors, that complicate health information systems deployment.
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Review: Computer use by older adults: A multi-disciplinary review

TL;DR: A holistic view of the study of computer use by older adults is provided, which provides a synthesis of the findings across these many disciplines, and attempts to highlight any gaps that exist.
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