Purposeful social media as support platform: Communication frameworks for older adults requiring care

Norval, Chris; Arnott, John L.; Hine, Nick; Hanson, Vicki L.

doi:10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2011.245965

Cited by 16 publications

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“…Studies show that online social networks and support groups benefit a wide range of transitional communities, such as new parents [20], those who have recently lost a job [11], adults transitioning to old age [37], and students entering college [19,39,41,43]. In the absence of socialization that allows people to gain the skills necessary to smoothly navigate life transitions [25], some of these skills are learned via SNS networks.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disclosure, Stress, and Support During Gender Transition on Facebook

Haimson

Brubaker

Dombrowski

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work &Amp; Social Computing

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Social computing technologies, such as social networking sites (SNSs), often privilege people who fit within expected, static categories. Thus, users embarking on major identity changes, such as gender transition, often encounter stress when using SNSs to interact with their online social networks. To address this problem and reflect on the design of SNSs and other social computing systems, we present the results of a comprehensive online survey of transgender and gender non-conforming SNS users. Our findings indicate that although Facebook can be a stressful place for gender transition due to difficulties of transition disclosure, support from one's Facebook network can help to mitigate some of this stress. We examine Facebook both as a site of stress and as a site of support. Better understanding the relationships between stress, disclosure, and support on SNSs for these particular users can inform technology design that will benefit people who struggle with navigating a wide range of major identity changes online.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disclosure, Stress, and Support During Gender Transition on Facebook

Haimson

Brubaker

Dombrowski

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work &Amp; Social Computing

159

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“…The majority of research has focused on younger age groups such as teenagers and university students. Despite the increase in adoption rates of SNS's by senior citizens, not much is known yet regarding reasons and motivations for adoption and use within this age category [16] [17] [18]. Previous research suggests issues such as perceived lack of usefulness, ease of use as well as privacy and security concerns as key factors contributing to the slower adoption rates by senior citizens [16] [18].…”

Section: Senior Citizens and Technology Usementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite the increase in adoption rates of SNS's by senior citizens, not much is known yet regarding reasons and motivations for adoption and use within this age category [16] [17] [18]. Previous research suggests issues such as perceived lack of usefulness, ease of use as well as privacy and security concerns as key factors contributing to the slower adoption rates by senior citizens [16] [18]. Senior citizens are influenced by their social peers and members of their family, particularly their children and grandchildren who play the role of change agents in creating awareness and ultimately the use of the technology [19].…”

Section: Senior Citizens and Technology Usementioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Facebook on the Quality of Life of Senior Citizens in Cape Town

Rylands

Belle

2017

Information and Communication Technologies for Development

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Social Networking Sites (SNSs), such as Facebook, can be used to maintain social connectedness especially with friends and family, irrespective of geographical distances or physical impairments. This is particularly beneficial for older people who are more prone to social exclusion. This paper investigates the impact that the use of Facebook has on the quality of life (QOL) of senior citizens living in Cape Town. The study use a positivist approach with a conceptual model comprised of parts of Kleine's Choice Framework and CASP-19 as the theoretical lens for evaluation of how Facebook impacts the QOL of senior citizens in Cape Town. Results of an anonymous survey confirmed that respondents were light users of Facebook, using only a limited number of features. The research also revealed that the respondents used Facebook primarily to stay socially engaged with their friends and family which adds happiness to their lives and ultimately translates to an improved QOL. The results reinforced a causal relationship between Facebook use and the QOL of senior citizens in Cape Town.

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“…The investigation by Norval et al [48] suggested the use of an established online social network, like Facebook, as a framework for telecare, i.e. for communication to help carers stay in touch with patients and provide support when needed.…”

Section: Online Social Media Platforms and Healthcarementioning

confidence: 99%

Remote Health Monitoring Using Online Social Media

Khorakhun¹,

Bhatti²

2014

ICST Transactions on Ubiquitous Environments

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Remote monitoring is an essential part of future mHealth systems for the delivery of personal and pervasive healthcare, especially to allow the collection of personal bio-data outside clinical environments. Yet, by its very nature, it presents considerable challenges: it will be a highly distributed task, requiring collection of bio-data for a myriad of cources, to be marshalled at the clinical site via secure communication channels. To address these challenges, we propose the use of an online social media platform (OSMP) as a key component of a near-future remote health monitoring system. By exploiting existing infrastructure, initial costs can be reduced, at the same time as allowing fast and flexible application development. An OSMP would have user benefits also: patients and healthcare professionals can be presented with familiar interfaces, while application developers can work with a set of technologies that are widely used and well-known. Internet-based access also helps to provide wide-ranging connectivity for mobile applications. Additionally, the use of a social media context allows existing social interactions within the healthcare regime to be modelled within a carer network, working in harmony with, and providing support for, existing relationships and interactions between patients and healthcare professionals. We focus on the use of an OSMP to enable two primitive functions which we consider essential for mHealth, and on which larger personal healthcare services could be built: remote health monitoring of personal bio-data, and an alert system for asynchronous notifications. We analyse the general requirements in a carer network for these two primitive functions, in terms of four different viewpoints within the carer network: the patient, the doctor in charge, a professional carer, and a family member (or friend) of the patient. We discuss the suitability of OSMPs in terms of functionality, performance, security & privacy, as well as the potential for cost reduction.

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Purposeful social media as support platform: Communication frameworks for older adults requiring care

Cited by 16 publications

References 12 publications

Disclosure, Stress, and Support During Gender Transition on Facebook

Disclosure, Stress, and Support During Gender Transition on Facebook

The Impact of Facebook on the Quality of Life of Senior Citizens in Cape Town

Remote Health Monitoring Using Online Social Media

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