Information technologies for active and assisted living—Influences to the quality of life of an ageing society

Siegel, Christian; Dörner, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2017.01.012

Cited by 116 publications

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“…Out of 32 articles, only 7 refer to the application of instruments to measure health-related outcomes (Table 5). This was also referred to in the study of Siegel and Dorner [56].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 86%

Ambient Assisted Living and Health-Related Outcomes—A Systematic Literature Review

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The active ageing paradigm aims to contribute to the expectation of a long, autonomous, independent and healthy life. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) promotes the development of technological solutions that might have a key role in not only the optimization of support services for older adults but also in the mitigation of their disabilities. This article presents a systematic literature review of how the impact of AAL technologies, products and services is being assessed in terms of its health-related outcomes. The main objective of this article is to contribute to the understanding of how state-of-the-art AAL solutions might influence the health conditions of older adults. The method used to conduct this systematic literature review followed the guidelines of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). The results show that the reviewed articles report not only the use of technological assessment instruments but also instruments to measure health-related outcomes such as quality of life.

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“…Out of 32 articles, only 7 refer to the application of instruments to measure health-related outcomes (Table 5). This was also referred to in the study of Siegel and Dorner [56].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 86%

Ambient Assisted Living and Health-Related Outcomes—A Systematic Literature Review

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“…However, this is not due to negligence but rather to misguided help given to the elderly (whom they perceive as uninterested in new technologies) with a view to protecting them and is based on an underestimation of their abilities to learn to use new technology (Sjölinder and Scandurra 2015). Care personnel have also expressed their fear that information communication systems could negatively affect the closeness and intimacy that embody genuine care situations, threatening the relationship between the care personnel and the care recipient and promoting inhuman care (Siegel and Dorner 2017, Sävenstedt, Sandman, and Zingmark 2006. Reservations have also been raised about the quality of care provided by communication technologies, which, for example, limits the care personnel's ability to observe the events unfolding around the care receivers and to notice effects that are not readily revealed (Hout, Pols, and Willems 2015.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Reservations have also been raised about the quality of care provided by communication technologies, which, for example, limits the care personnel's ability to observe the events unfolding around the care receivers and to notice effects that are not readily revealed (Hout, Pols, and Willems 2015. Furthermore, there is a worry that replacing communication technologies with physical visits could increase loneliness and social isolation among older people who are in need of care (Siegel and Dorner 2017, Hout, Pols, and Willems 2015, Sävenstedt, Sandman, and Zingmark 2006.…”

Section: Shift In Responsibilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Narrative Review: Technologies in Eldercare

Frennert¹,

Östlund²

2018

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Background: Welfare technology is a concept that appears as one of the answers to how to meet the need for care in growing older populations. Although technology has been used for decades in eldercare, it is under-problematized and there is a lack of knowledge about how effective it really is. Objectives: This paper reviews the usage of technologies in eldercare and describes determinants of successful implementation of technologies in eldercare. The review aims to summarize and critically evaluate important aspects of technology usage in eldercare. Method: A narrative review method was selected for analysis of the literature. Through applying a narrative perspective to review the literature on technologies in eldercare, a broad understanding is gained of the contextual factors and main key success factors of implementing technologies in eldercare. Result: The review yield 71 publications related to technologies in eldercare. Seven themes were identified: (1) curriculum of technologies in eldercare; (2) on technologies; (3) evaluation models; (4) key success factors; (5) perception – care personnel; (6) perception – older users; and (7) controversies and dilemmas Discussion and Implications: The result of the review shows that technologies in eldercare are promoted to enable more seamless, efficient, patient-centered and safe care, however technologies might be contributing to making eldercare more fragmented, time-consuming, technology-centered and risky. Technologies in eldercare are only as successful and suitable as organizational culture, infrastructure and management practice allow them to be.

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“…For instance, apps exist that help increase physical activity in people with cardiovascular disease (Maddison et al, 2015), that allow for self-managed balance interventions (Reyes et al, 2018), and that foster stroke rehabilitation (Wong et al, 2017). There is ample empirical evidence that interventions that employ rehabilitation apps lead to positive outcomes not only in terms of improved health conditions but also in terms of subjective dimensions related to quality of life (Gandhi et al, 2016;Park et al, 2016;Siegel and Dorner, 2017).…”

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A comparison of the usability of a standard and an age-friendly smartphone launcher: experimental evidence from usability testing with older adults

Petrovčič

Šetinc

Burnik

et al. 2018

International Journal of Rehabilitation Research

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Age-friendly smartphone launchers are tools designed to enhance smartphone handling among older adults with cognitive and functional limitations. Although evidence exists about the positive effects of age-friendly smartphone launchers on older adults' usability performance in general, little is known about how the design and interface complexity of these launchers affect their interface usability effectiveness and efficiency compared with standard Android smartphone interfaces. Thus, in this study, a randomized crossover experiment involving 50 older smartphone users, aged 60 years and above, was guided by the principles of summative usability testing to assess whether an age-friendly launcher performs better than a standard Android launcher performs and to investigate the relationship between the user interface complexity and usability performance of launchers. The results of usability tests in which each participant solved 10 tasks on both launchers indicate that the two tested launchers had comparable effectiveness (i.e. completeness with which participants achieved the test tasks' goals), whereas the age-friendly launcher marginally outperformed its standard Android counterpart in terms of efficiency (i.e. the amount of time used by participants to solve the test tasks). The results also demonstrate that lower user interface complexity is associated with higher effectiveness and efficiency, suggesting that age-friendly smartphone launchers might lead to higher adoption rates of smartphones among older adults if interface designers could reduce their cognitive complexity by limiting the number of steps and alternative paths for task completion.

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Information technologies for active and assisted living—Influences to the quality of life of an ageing society

Cited by 116 publications

References 51 publications

Ambient Assisted Living and Health-Related Outcomes—A Systematic Literature Review

Ambient Assisted Living and Health-Related Outcomes—A Systematic Literature Review

Narrative Review: Technologies in Eldercare

A comparison of the usability of a standard and an age-friendly smartphone launcher: experimental evidence from usability testing with older adults

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