Breaking Digital Barriers: A Social-Cognitive Approach to Improving Digital Literacy in Older Adults

Steelman, Kelly S.; Tislar, Kay L.; Ureel, Leo C.; Wallace, Charles

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“…Although this projected increase in older adults includes many digital aware middle-aged adults, we need to be mindful that the ever evolving and rapid changes to technology likely necessitate that some of this group may need training to keep pace with technological advances. Moreover, researchers have recently argued the importance of developing flexible skills and technological self-efficacy for individuals to maintain their digital literacy (Steelman, Tislar, Ureel, & Wallace, 2016).…”

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“There’s Not Enough Knowledge Out There”: Examining Older Adults’ Perceptions of Digital Technology Use and Digital Inclusion Classes

2017

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Older adults' definitions of digital technology, and experiences of digital inclusion sessions, were examined using qualitative approaches. Seventeen older adults (aged between 54 and 85) participated in two focus groups that each lasted approximately 90 minutes to explore how older adults understood technology within their lived experience. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis yielded two main themes: Thirst for knowledge and a wish list for digital technology sessions. A separate content analysis was performed to identify what technology older adults identified as digital technology. This analysis revealed that the older adults most frequently defined digital technology as computers and telephones. The findings support the conclusions that this group of older adults, some of whom were 'successful users', have a wide knowledge of digital technology, are interested in gaining more skills, and desire knowledge acquisition through personalised one-to-one learning sessions.

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“There’s Not Enough Knowledge Out There”: Examining Older Adults’ Perceptions of Digital Technology Use and Digital Inclusion Classes

2017

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“…These types of remote consultations are particularly suitable for older patients with social frailty, and associated difficulties related to travel for radiotherapy. Remote consultations avoid unnecessary travel, without compromising patient care, however it is known that older people may have less access to technology and more challenges in relation to digital literacy [110].…”

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Personalised treatment for older adults with cancer: The role of frailty assessment

O’Donovan

Leech

2020

Technical Innovations & Patient Support in Radiation Oncolo

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It is widely accepted in clinical practice that chronological age is a poor predictor of treatment tolerance and outcomes in older adults with cancer. Intrinsic vulnerability is more a function of underlying frailty, rather than chronological age. Frailty is a state of increased vulnerability to stressors, such as cancer and its treatment, which can lead to adverse health outcomes for patients. Capturing this heterogeneity in reserve capacity is the cornerstone of management in geriatricmedicine, but remains poorly understood or adopted in radiation oncology. A two-step approach, using a shorter screening tool, followed by full assessment for those who need it, is the mostresourceful way of implementing frailty assessment in radiotherapy departments. It is important for radiation oncology professionals to identify frailty and to use this information in multidisciplinary decision making in order to develop a personalised radiotherapy approach for the older person. There are many ways we can effectively use this information, such as considering treatment fractionation schedules that would limit the burden of travel for those with social frailty, or reviewing the range of modalities at our disposal, which might limit toxicity in the older person at high risk of deterioration during treatment. Frailty assessment is not carried out in many radiotherapy departments presently, but there are many international models to use as exemplars as to how it may be implemented in clinical practice. There are many opportunities for further research and role development in this field at the current time.

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“…After a decade, due to the widespread ICT circulation, M. Fieldhouse and Nicholas (2008) suggested the terms "literacy" and "fluency" to describe users' skills in searching for and critically evaluating the information in the digital space (Fieldhouse & Nicholas, 2008). Currently, most scientists define digital literacy as a set of basic skills of producing and consuming digital media, information search and procession, interacting in social networks aiming at creating and distributing knowledge and a number of professional computer skills (Prieto-Nanez, 2016;Capstick, 2016;Steelman, Tislar, Ureel, & Wallace, 2016;Kamoun-Chouk, 2019).…”

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Digital Competences Of Rural Population: Theory, Estimation Methodology And Research Experience

Kurnikova¹,

Koroleva²,

Chirkunova³

2020

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Breaking Digital Barriers: A Social-Cognitive Approach to Improving Digital Literacy in Older Adults

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“There’s Not Enough Knowledge Out There”: Examining Older Adults’ Perceptions of Digital Technology Use and Digital Inclusion Classes

“There’s Not Enough Knowledge Out There”: Examining Older Adults’ Perceptions of Digital Technology Use and Digital Inclusion Classes

Personalised treatment for older adults with cancer: The role of frailty assessment

Digital Competences Of Rural Population: Theory, Estimation Methodology And Research Experience

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