Differences in Perceived Impact of Person-Centered Technology on Older Adults' Quality of Life

Madjaroff, Galina; Mentis, Helena M.; Ronch, Judah L.

doi:10.1145/2851581.2892540

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“…D’Haeseleer et al reported that older adults in their study demonstrated a lack of interest in adopting self-management technologies due to accessibility barriers and the need for relatives to provide support [ 82 ]. Other researchers suggest that older people would accept a technology as long as it is designed around their needs [ 83 ]. The findings of our study indicated that participants found the application to be beneficial, and indicated that they preferred to use technology-based solutions as opposed to paper-based ones for self-managing their medications and activities.…”

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Successful Aging for Community-Dwelling Older Adults: An Experimental Study with a Tablet App

Chaudhry

Dasgupta

Chawla

2022

IJERPH

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Mobile health (mHealth) technologies offer an opportunity to enable the care and support of community-dwelling older adults, however, research examining the use of mHealth in delivering quality of life (QoL) improvements in the older population is limited. We developed a tablet application (eSeniorCare) based on the Successful Aging framework and investigated its feasibility among older adults with low socioeconomic status. Twenty five participants (females = 14, mean age = 65 years) used the app to set and track medication intake reminders and health goals, and to play selected casual mobile games for 24 weeks. The Older person QoL and Short Health (SF12v2) surveys were administered before and after the study. The Wilcoxon rank tests were used to determine differences from baseline, and thematic analysis was used to analyze post-study interview data. The improvements in health-related QoL (HRQoL) scores were statistically significant (V=41.5, p=0.005856) across all participants. The frequent eSeniorCare users experienced statistically significant improvements in their physical health (V=13, p=0.04546) and HRQoL (V=7.5, p=0.0050307) scores. Participants reported that the eSeniorCare app motivated timely medication intake and health goals achievement, whereas tablet games promoted mental stimulation. Participants were willing to use mobile apps to self-manage their medications (70%) and adopt healthy activities (72%), while 92% wanted to recommend eSeniorCare to a friend. This study shows the feasibility and possible impact of an mHealth tool on the health-related QoL in older adults with a low socioeconomic status. mHealth support tools and future research to determine their effects are warranted for this population.

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confidence: 99%

Successful Aging for Community-Dwelling Older Adults: An Experimental Study with a Tablet App

Chaudhry

Dasgupta

Chawla

2022

IJERPH

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Conversational Agents for Elderly Interaction

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França

Sousa

et al. 2021

2021 IEEE 24th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD)

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Discourse Behavior of Older Adults Interacting with a Dialogue Agent Competent in Multiple Topics

Razavi

Schubert

Orden

et al. 2022

ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst.

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We present a conversational agent designed to provide realistic conversational practice to older adults at risk of isolation or social anxiety, and show the results of a content analysis on a corpus of data collected from experiments with elderly patients interacting with our system. The conversational agent, represented by a virtual avatar, is designed to hold multiple sessions of casual conversation with older adults. Throughout each interaction, the system analyzes the prosodic and nonverbal behavior of users and provides feedback to the user in the form of periodic comments and suggestions on how to improve. Our avatar is unique in its ability to hold natural dialogues on a wide range of everyday topics – 27 topics in three groups, developed in collaboration with a team of gerontologists. The three groups vary in “degrees of intimacy”, and as such in degrees of cognitive difficulty for the user. After collecting data from 9 participants who interacted with the avatar for 7-9 sessions over a period of 3-4 weeks, we present results concerning dialogue behavior and inferred sentiment of the users. Analysis of the dialogues reveals correlations such as greater elaborateness for more difficult topics, increasing elaborateness with successive sessions, stronger sentiments in topics concerned with life goals rather than routine activities, and stronger self-disclosure for more intimate topics. In addition to their intrinsic interest, these results also reflect positively on the sophistication and practical applicability of our dialogue system.

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Differences in Perceived Impact of Person-Centered Technology on Older Adults' Quality of Life

Cited by 4 publications

References 25 publications

Successful Aging for Community-Dwelling Older Adults: An Experimental Study with a Tablet App

Successful Aging for Community-Dwelling Older Adults: An Experimental Study with a Tablet App

Conversational Agents for Elderly Interaction

Discourse Behavior of Older Adults Interacting with a Dialogue Agent Competent in Multiple Topics

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