scholarly journals Design Considerations for Mobile Health Applications Targeting Older Adults

2021 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Clara Li ◽  
Judith Neugroschl ◽  
Carolyn W. Zhu ◽  
Amy Aloysi ◽  
Corbett A. Schimming ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Mobile Health ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Design Considerations ◽  
Aging Populations ◽  
Mobile Health Applications ◽  
Health Applications

Mobile technologies are becoming ubiquitous in the world, changing the way we communicate and provide patient care and services. Some of the most compelling benefits of mobile technologies are in the areas of disease prevention, health management, and care delivery. For all the advances that are occurring in mobile health, its full potential for older adults is only starting to emerge. Yet, existing mobile health applications have design flaws that may limit usability by older adults. The aim of this paper is to review barriers and identify knowledge gaps where more research is needed to improve the accessibility of mobile health use in aging populations. The same observations might apply to those who are not elderly, including individuals suffering from severe mental or medical illnesses.

Challenges of Mobile Health Applications in Developing Countries

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikhil Yadav ◽  
Christian Poellabauer
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Mobile Health ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Public Health Services ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Aging Populations ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Mobile Health Applications ◽  
Reducing Costs

Global health care has become an enormous industry worldwide, where trends such as aging populations, environmental and climate changes, catastrophic events, and the spread and evolution of diseases pose significant challenges. With the rapid growth of information technology (IT), wireless technologies, and mobile services, health care processes are able to increasingly benefit from new technological advances and applications built on top of them. Specifically, the area of “Mobile Health” or mHealth, which leverages mobile phone functionality to provide medical and public health services, has become a very promising trend. Wireless and mobile technologies have great potential in improving patient care, reducing costs, streamlining processes, allowing adherence to regulations, and many other health-related activities. However, the developing world faces numerous challenges in realizing the infrastructure and technical expertise required to adopt mHealth solutions and applications. In this chapter, we focus on these challenges in the developing world and highlight existing problems and risks in realizing mHealth applications and services. This chapter also proposes various solutions to overcome these problems.

scholarly journals Relationships between the Older Adult’s Cognitive Decline and Quality of Life: The Mediating Role of the Assistive Mobile Health Applications

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Murtaja Ali Saare ◽  
Azham Hussain ◽  
Wong Seng Yue
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Cognitive Decline ◽  
Mobile Health ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Mobile Health Applications ◽  
Conceptual Explanation ◽  
Health Applications

This article examines the link between the older adult’s cognitive decline, and Assistive Mobile Health Applications in terms of quality of life as researcher has found scarcity in explaining the mediating role of assistive mobile health applications towards the quality of life of older adults with cognitive decline. Researchers have identified the importance of using assistive mobile health applications in connection of the older adult’s cognitive decline. However, it remained unaddressed in the explaining the mediating role of assistive mobile health application. Therefore, this paper aims to provide an insight that the adoption of assistive m-health applications will provide this population with potential solution to their challenging aging life, hence, enhancing their quality of life. In addition, this paper is only a conceptual explanation, as it aims to identify the possible reasons that influence their Smartphone adoption. Factors were identified using a systematic literature review on relevant peer reviewed papers. The study summarized the empirical evidences which were used to support the conceptual explanation. It is expected that this work will lead towards the empirical findings on the explanation of the mediating role of the assistive mobile health applications to address the relationship of older adult’s cognitive decline and quality of life. This paper providesdirections for future studies in improving the quality of life of older adults.

scholarly journals Conceptualizing Mobile Health Application Use Intention and Adoption Among Iraqian Older Adults: From the Perspective of Expanded Technology Acceptance Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Murtaja Ali Saare ◽  
Azham Hussain ◽  
Wong Seng Yue
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Technology Acceptance Model ◽  
Mobile Health ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Intention To Use ◽  
Mobile Health Applications ◽  
Acceptance Model ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Health Applications

<p>The aim of this article is to discuss how different factors affect the decision of intention to use and adopt mobile health applications using the extended technology acceptance model (TAM) among older adults in Iraq. “Perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PEU), subjective norm (SN), and facilitating conditions (FC)” were four key predictors. Gender and age were included as factors for moderating the impact of two key TAM components in the proposed model (PU and PEU) on intention to use and adoption behaviors. The results of the past studies indicated that PU, PEU and SN were important predictors of adoption of mobile health applications among older adults in Iraq, While PU, SN, and FC were important predictors of the intention to use mobile health applications. Previous studies highlighted a strong impact of PEU on the intention to use mobile health applications on older adults than for younger adults. Implications are discussed for future research and practices.</p>

scholarly journals Evaluating authentication options for mobile health applications in younger and older adults

PLoS ONE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. e0189048 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Grindrod ◽  
Hassan Khan ◽  
Urs Hengartner ◽  
Stephanie Ong ◽  
Alexander G. Logan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Mobile Health ◽  
Mobile Health Applications ◽  
Health Applications

scholarly journals Mobile health applications and health management behaviors: A cost/benefits approach (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Mano
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Mobile Health ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Home Care Services ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Situational Effects ◽  
Mobile Health Applications ◽  
Management Behaviors ◽  
Health Applications

BACKGROUND Rising criticisms about the effectiveness and risks associated with the growing use of mobile health, applications necessitate a critical perspective regarding the effectiveness of the link between use of mobile health applications, health attitudes and health behaviors. OBJECTIVE we introduce a “costs/benefits” perspective to examine how health situational effects including health crises, health changes and hospitalization affect the likelihood to adopt lifestyle and health management behaviors. METHODS A sample of 1495 US adults (PEW, 2012) and a set of multiple regression models RESULTS while the use of mobile health applications empowers users to reconsider health concerns, reach health decisions and seek further consultation yet, the existence of situational effects moderates the empowering effect of applications and decreases the likelihood of adopting health management behaviors CONCLUSIONS a costs/benefits perspective captures the push/pull factors associated with the effectiveness of mobile applications use in-home care in order to properly address the costs and benefits of mobile applications use and support home care services.

scholarly journals Investigating the Effectiveness of Mobile Peer Support to Enhance the Quality of Life of Older Adults: A Systematic Literature Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Murtaja Ali Saare ◽  
Azham Hussain ◽  
Wong Seng Yue
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Daily Life Activities ◽  
Mobile Health Applications ◽  
Health Applications

<p>Aging is the biological, psychological, or social change that occur with the passage of time which leads to functional impairment, and eventually chronic diseases. The number of people living older is rapidly increasing, and there is a natural decline in physical activity. The reduced mobility affects their daily life activities making them dependent on others for health. Therefore, mobile technologies such as m-health applications provide potential for enhanced health care among older adults. The present study highlights the factors that affect the adoption of smartphone applications, and potential factors such as mobile peer support can facilitate older adults to adopt latest technologies. However, previous studies have remained unsuccessful in explaining the moderating role of mobile peer support. Therefore, this paper aims to provide an insight with potential solution to the challenges of aging life, hence, enhancing their quality of life. This paper is only a conceptual explanation, which aims to identify the possible factors that influence their smartphone adoption using a systematic literature review on relevant peer-reviewed papers. It is expected that this work will lead towards the empirical findings on the explanation of the interplay of the peer support to address the relationship of assistive mobile health applications and quality of life. This paper provides directions for future studies in improving the quality of life of older adults by using technology.</p>

scholarly journals Active Usage of Mobile Health Applications: Cross-sectional Study (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Wang ◽  
Tailai Wu ◽  
Zhuo Chen
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Health ◽  
Consumer Satisfaction ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Mobile Health Applications ◽  
Consumer Dissatisfaction ◽  
Health Applications

BACKGROUND Mobile health applications are being increasingly used for people’s health management. The different uses of mobile health applications lead to different health outcomes. Although active usage of mobile health applications is shown to be linked to the effectiveness of mobile health services, the factors that influence people’s active usage of mobile health applications are not well studied. OBJECTIVE This paper aims to examine the antecedents of active usage of mobile health applications. METHODS Grounded on the 3-factor theory, we proposed 10 attributes of mobile health applications that influence the active usage of mobile health applications through consumers’ satisfaction and dissatisfaction. We classified these 10 attributes into 3 categories (ie, excitement attributes, performance attributes, and basic attributes). Using the survey method, 494 valid responses were collected and analyzed using structural equation modeling. RESULTS Our analysis results revealed that both consumer satisfaction (β=0.351, <i>t</i>=6.299, <i>P</i>&lt;.001) and dissatisfaction (β=–0.251, <i>t</i>=5.119, <i>P</i>&lt;.001) significantly influenced active usage. With regard to the effect of attributes, excitement attributes (β=0.525, <i>t</i>=12.861, <i>P</i>&lt;.001) and performance attributes (β=0.297, <i>t</i>=6.508, <i>P</i>&lt;.001) positively influenced consumer satisfaction, while performance attributes (β=–0.231, <i>t</i>=3.729, <i>P</i>&lt;.001) and basic attributes (β=–0.412, <i>t</i>=7.132, <i>P</i>&lt;.001) negatively influenced consumer dissatisfaction. The results of the analysis confirmed our proposed hypotheses. CONCLUSIONS Our study provides a novel perspective to study the active usage of mobile health applications. By categorizing the attributes of mobile health applications into 3 categories, the differential effects of different attributes can be tested. Meanwhile, consumer satisfaction and dissatisfaction are confirmed to be independent from each other.

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