The Effect of Age on the Use of Health and Self-Care Information: Confronting the Stereotype

Wagner, Lisa S.; Wagner, Todd H.

doi:10.1093/geront/43.3.318

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“…Similarly, more participants over 70 years of age reported that information about stroke and aphasia should not be provided via computer programs or Internet. This fi nding is in accordance with Wagner and Wagner 85 who found that older adults were less likely than other age groups to use computers to access health information.…”

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Do People With Aphasia Want Written Stroke and Aphasia Information? A Verbal Survey Exploring Preferences for When and How to Provide Stroke and Aphasia Information

Rose

Worrall

Hickson

et al. 2010

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation

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A phasia can be defined as "the loss or impairment of language function." 1(p49) It is a multimodality disorder that manifests in difficulties with speaking, reading, and writing.1 Various studies have investigated the prevalence of aphasia resulting from stroke, estimating between 10% to 18% of stroke survivors will have aphasia long term.2-4 Given the language diffi culties encountered by people with aphasia, there is a growing recognition of the need to produce aphasia-friendly written health information.5-9 Aphasia-friendly information incorporates many of the recommendations for how best to format written information for stroke patients 10,11 but to an exaggerated degree. 12Preliminary research found that people with aphasia comprehended more health information when standard health information brochures and booklets were reformatted to contain simple words and short sentences, larger font, white space, and pictures. 6 Before further pursuing research in the area of aphasia-friendly text formatting, it is fundamental to determine whether people with aphasia wish to receive health information in written formats. "Virtually every variety of aphasia entails some diffi culty in oral reading or reading comprehension." 13(p60) Given this, and the wide variety of media available for patient education (eg, DVDs, Websites, verbal information), it should not be assumed that people with aphasia desire to receive health information in a written Purpose: Written health information can be better comprehended by people with aphasia if it is provided in an aphasiafriendly format. However, before pursuing research in the area of text-formatting for people with aphasia, it must be determined whether people with aphasia consider it helpful to receive health information in the written media. This study, therefore, aimed to determine the following: whether people with aphasia consider it important to receive written stroke and aphasia information; when people with aphasia prefer to receive this information; and what their preferences are for health information media. Method: Surveys were administered in a face-to-face interview with 40 adults with aphasia. Participants were purposefully selected using maximum variation sampling for a variety of variables including aphasia severity, reading ability, and time post stroke. Results: Participants thought it important to receive written information about both stroke and aphasia. They considered it helpful to receive written information at several stages post stroke, particularly from 1 month onwards. The largest proportion (97%) of participants identifi ed 6 months post stroke as the most helpful time to receive this information. Written information was the most preferred media at participants' present time post stroke (M = 39 months; range, 2-178 months). Videos/DVDs were the most preferred media during the 6 months immediately following the stroke. Conclusion: Despite reading and language diffi culties, participants considered written information to be important, hence people wi...

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Do People With Aphasia Want Written Stroke and Aphasia Information? A Verbal Survey Exploring Preferences for When and How to Provide Stroke and Aphasia Information

Rose

Worrall

Hickson

et al. 2010

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation

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“…In contrast, the present results indicate that common everyday technology related to increased use of ICT in health care and other community services may exclude people with dementia from participation in certain aspects of society and represent a barrier to their independence and self-fulfillment. This risk for people with dementia has also been pointed out by Topo et al (2002), while in general, the elderly have been found to be willing to use the health information provided by ICT (Smith Wagner & Wagner, 2003). Our results also indicated that there is a risk that technology can provide a false sense of security to caregivers and clients, which is worth particular attention.…”

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The use of everyday technology by people with dementia living alone: Mapping out the difficulties

Nygård

Starkhammar

2007

Aging & Mental Health

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While the technological development available to society is taking quantum leaps, we have little knowledge of how people with mild dementia manage to cope with familiar technology at home, such as television and electronic household machines, or new technology, such as remote controls, cell phones and computers. As this technology represents a potential problem area, the aim of this qualitative, exploratory study was to identify and characterize difficulties with and hindrances to using everyday technology, as they appeared in data, for persons with early stage dementia. Eight participants with dementia were included in an extensive data collection consisting of repeated interviews and observations made in the home; the data were analyzed adopting a constant comparative approach. The results exhibit a taxonomy of difficulties in four domains, encompassing conditions that interfere with the use of the technology, deficiencies in knowledge and in the communication between users and their technology, and limitations in the use of instructions. Typically, difficulties appeared in complex combinations. They arose when familiar technology was being used, and not only when new technology was to be used. This raised concerns about the need these people have for support in home and in society. Further research is needed to validate the findings.

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“…If avoiding going to the bank is the only perceived gain, it might not be significant enough to compensate for the trouble, especially as going to the bank may even be a positive thing as it provides exercise and social contacts (also noted in [40]). Additionally, easy access to health information is often considered an important benefit that the Web could offer to older people [39]. Nevertheless, these participants were not particularly interested in accessing health-related information from the Web because they either did not have any severe problems with their health or they wanted to consult their physician on those issues.…”

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User study on older adults’ use of the Web and search engines

Aula

2005

Univ Access Inf Soc

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Ten older adults were interviewed about the motivational factors behind learning to use computers and the negative and positive aspects related to it. They were then given search tasks and were observed as they used search engines for finding information from the Web. All of the participants completed several search tasks during the search session. Although their performance in the search tasks was adequate, they faced several problems in the interaction. For example, text editing was difficult and understanding the structure of the Web and terminology used caused problems. Based on the observations, an ''elderly friendly'' search user interface is proposed.

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The Effect of Age on the Use of Health and Self-Care Information: Confronting the Stereotype

Abstract: We find convincing evidence to counter the stereotype that older adults are resistant to trying new health information technologies.

Cited by 54 publications

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Do People With Aphasia Want Written Stroke and Aphasia Information? A Verbal Survey Exploring Preferences for When and How to Provide Stroke and Aphasia Information

Do People With Aphasia Want Written Stroke and Aphasia Information? A Verbal Survey Exploring Preferences for When and How to Provide Stroke and Aphasia Information

The use of everyday technology by people with dementia living alone: Mapping out the difficulties

User study on older adults’ use of the Web and search engines

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