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User profiles and personas in the design and development of consumer health technologies

Cynthia LeRouge, +3 more
- 01 Nov 2013 - 
- Vol. 82, Iss: 11
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The study provides guidance on the creation and use of profiles and personas to tap into the conceptual models of the targeted elderly population reflecting their preferences, capabilities and attitudes towards using technology in self-management care in general and the smart phone diabetes management application in particular.
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This article is published in International Journal of Medical Informatics.The article was published on 2013-11-01. It has received 277 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health care & User profile.

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Focus groups as qualitative research / by Morgan, David L.

David L. Morgan
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A holistic framework to improve the uptake and impact of eHealth technologies.

Julia E.W.C. van Gemert-Pijnen, +6 more
- 05 Dec 2011 - 
TL;DR: A holistic framework is composed based on a participatory development approach, persuasive design techniques, and business modeling that serves as an evidence-based roadmap to demonstrate the impact of eHealth technologies more effectively.
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Designing eHealth that Matters via a Multidisciplinary Requirements Development Approach

Lex van Velsen, +2 more
- 24 Jun 2013 - 
TL;DR: Evaluated eHealth on a feature-specific level in order to learn exactly why such a technology does or does not live up to its expectations, and enables eHealth developers to apply a systematic and multi-disciplinary approach towards the creation of requirements.
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Innovation and technology for the elderly : systematic literature review

Rana Mostaghel
- 01 Nov 2016 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a challenge regarding the ability of maintaining the costs for providing services to this group, as life expectancy increases, so does the number of elders, which poses a challenge.
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Baby Boomers’ Adoption of Consumer Health Technologies: Survey on Readiness and Barriers

Cynthia LeRouge, +3 more
- 08 Sep 2014 - 
TL;DR: Baby boomers’ nuances regarding readiness to adopt and the barriers associated with the various forms of consumer health technology should be taken into account by those interested in promoting consumer health technologies use among baby boomers.
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Prevalence of Type 2 diabetes in urban and rural Chinese populations in Qingdao, China.

Yi-Hu Dong, +10 more
- 01 Oct 2005 - 
TL;DR: To determine the prevalence of diabetes in the Chinese adult population in rural and urban areas of Qingdao city, a large number of adults with diabetes have been diagnosed with the disease.
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Self-management in older patients with chronic illness.

Robyn Gallagher, +3 more
- 01 Oct 2008 - 
TL;DR: Patients at risk of poor self-management included people with low self-efficacy, poor sense of coherence, older age and a primary diagnosis of chronic schizophrenia.
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User Modelling in Ambient Intelligence for Elderly and Disabled People

Roberto Casas, +7 more
TL;DR: An intelligent system with a monitoring infrastructure that will help mainly elderly users with impairments to overcome their handicap and create a safe and intuitive environment that will facilitate the achievement of household tasks in order to preserve independence of elderly residents for a while longer is presented.
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Arthritis Self-Management: A Study of the Effectiveness of Patient Education for the Elderly

Kate Lorig, +2 more
- 01 Oct 1984 - 
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Medication instruction design: younger and older adult schemas for taking medication

Daniel G. Morrow, +6 more
- 01 Dec 1996 - 
TL;DR: This study suggests that older and younger adults possess a schema for taking medication and that instructions that are compatible with this schema provide an environmental support that improves memory for medication information.