Factors Influencing Ageing Population for Adopting Ambient Assisted Living Technologies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Factors that affect health information technology adoption by seniors: A systematic review

“…The price/cost value was referred to studies that considered almost all types of technologies and appeared in various adoption models including UTAUT(2), C‐TAILS and DoI. The cost of HIT relates to the installation, service, repairs and maintenance of the technology (Alsulami & Atkins, 2016; Lu, Chi, & Chen, 2014; Steele, Lo, Secombe, & Wong, 2009). Overall, 15 studies reported a negative impact of price/cost value on HIT adoption by seniors, of which six studies indicated significant negative effects.…”

“…Privacy/security concerns were assessed in a variety of approaches, including seniors’ need for privacy in sharing health information with others through ICT (Cimperman et al., 2016), and worries about data security and home security in using ambient assisted living technology (Alsulami & Atkins, 2016). Concerns over privacy/security were found to be barriers to HIT adoption in nine studies (Alsulami & Atkins, 2016; Beer & Takayama, 2011; Cimperman et al., 2016; Cimperman, Brenčič, Trkman, & Stanonik, 2013; Claes et al., 2015; Loh, Flicker, & Horner, 2009; Mitzner et al., 2010; van Houwelingen et al., 2018; Zettel‐Watson & Tsukerman, 2016), out of which four studies reported significant negative effects. Specifically, 15% of participants in one study reported privacy concerns over accepting mobile remote presence systems (Beer & Takayama, 2011).…”

“So, Tell Me What Kind of a Thing It Really Is”—Finnish Older Adults Making Sense of Home Technology

“…Thus, sensemaking, or the use or rejection of technologies, is not an individual endeavor, nor a matter of attitude or skills-even though these may play a part-but intertwined with much deeper and wider social, structural and political issues (Helsper & Reisdorf, 2016;Smith, 2014). This kind of holistic point of view, which seeks to address the complexity of the reasons why something constitutes an incentive or a barrier to using technology, is lacking in much of the existing barrier or acceptance research (e.g., Alsulami & Atkins, 2016;Peek et al, 2014;Yusif et al, 2016).…”

“…Regarding older adults, identified barriers to adopting assistive technologies consist, for example, of privacy concerns (Alsulami & Atkins, 2016), concerns over cost (Bentley et al, 2018), safety and trust (Lie, Lindsay, & Brittain, 2015), functionality, difficulties of use and suitability for daily use (Yusif, Soar, & Hafeez-Baig, 2016), lack of confidence (Cook et al, 2016), negative stigma and reduced independence associated with the equipment (Bentley et al, 2018). Acceptance of such technology, in turn, is argued to be connected with expected benefits, characteristics of older adults such as cultural background or desire to age in place (Peek et al, 2014(Peek et al, , 2015, perceived need for or interest in technology, willingness to invest effort in using the device, positive influence of social networks (Peek et al, 2015), as well as perceived peace of mind provided by technology (Bentley et al, 2018).…”

“…The viewpoint and needs of older adults have been acknowledged in several gerontechnology studies (Claes, Devriendt, Tournoy, & Milisen, 2015;Alsulami & Atkins, 2016;Bentley et al, 2018;González-Oñate et al, 2015;Ziefle, Röcker, & Holzinger, 2011;Peek at al., 2015;Lie, Lindsay, & Brittain, 2015). However, many of these studies are based on surveys or interviews of people who might not actually use home technology, but rather, the data reflect their attitudes towards and conceptions of the issue.…”