Acceptance and use of health information technology by community-dwelling elders
Shira H. Fischer,Shira H. Fischer,Daniel David,Daniel David,Bradley H. Crotty,Meghan Dierks,Charles Safran +6 more
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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.About:
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.read more
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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
Grace Fox,Regina Connolly +1 more
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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Bradford W. Hesse,David E. Nelson,Gary L. Kreps,Robert T. Croyle,Neeraj K. Arora,Barbara K. Rimer,Kasisomayajula Viswanath +6 more
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Adopting electronic medical records in primary care: Lessons learned from health information systems implementation experience in seven countries
Dave Ludwick,John Doucette +1 more
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.