Promoting dietary awareness: Home‐dwelling older adults’ perspectives on using a nutrition application

Abstract

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Older Adults’ Engagement in Technology‐Mediated Self‐Monitoring of Diet: A Mixed‐Method Study

“…For example, studies have demonstrated that recording fruit and vegetable consumption in an app can be a powerful tool to increase awareness of low consumption levels, leading to increased consumption (Mummah et al, 2017; Steinert, Haesner, Tetley, & Steinhagen‐Thiessen, 2016). This article as well as our previous work suggests that interest in and awareness of an age‐friendly diet increased among older adults as they used Appetitus to self‐monitor their diets—many implemented dietary changes (Aure, Kluge, & Moen, 2020). It is still unclear how long and how often it is necessary to engage in dietary self‐monitoring to foster long‐standing eating habits that are beneficial for health (Michie, Yardley, West, Patrick, & Greaves, 2017).…”

“…Having knowledge and skills in using tablet technology was not crucial to the older adults' ability to use Appetitus or whether they used it regularly. This indicates that the app was user friendly and that the participants received sufficient training and support from the healthcare professionals during the trial (Aure et al, 2020;Wildenbos et al, 2018). The app's interface is the outcome of an extensive co-design process accompanied by iterative evaluations and a pilot study with potential users, ensuring that the final version of the interface was suitable for older adults, including those without prior technology use (Fuglerud et al, 2018).…”

Methodologies for Selection of Optimal Sites for Renewable Energy Under a Diverse Set of Constraints and Objectives

“…Less frequently considered nutrition topics included status, weight and body composition, and ADL. Several studies used technology to improve nutrition status of malnourished or at nutritional risk (e.g., Aure et al, 2020). Three studies examined how technology can promote weight loss (e.g., Batsis et al, 2019).…”

A Scoping Review of Nutrition Health for Older Adults: Does Technology Help?

“…Software applications: Most studies extracted utilized software applications, specifically to "assess, track and monitor" older adults' health outcomes, including dietary intake (n = 31 [3,23,40,52,54,56,[58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65]67,71,[73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85]87,89]). Thirteen applications served to help provide food options, recommendations, remind older adults to eat or drink, or provide nutrition education [23,40,52,54,56,58,60,61,67,75,77,83,85]. Nine studies used a software application to track and analyze diet [3,59,62,64...…”

“…Software applications were accessed using a tablet computer (n = 21 studies, [3,23,40,54,55,[58][59][60]64,67,[73][74][75]77,[79][80][81][82][83][84][85]87]) or mobile/smartphone devices (n = 7 studies [61,64,65,76,80,81,89]). Nine extracted studies that utilized software applications also incorporated internet access, where the end users needed the internet to connect to digital healthcare resources or providers [6,23,54,58,64,67,78,84,89]. Three studies using software applications utilized webcam technologies [3,81,82].…”