Are Healthy Older Individuals Ready to Use Smartphones?

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00179906:_____/18:10385173 RIV/61989100:27240/18:10244377

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/asl.2018.11081" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/asl.2018.11081</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/asl.2018.11081" target="_blank" >10.1166/asl.2018.11081</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Are Healthy Older Individuals Ready to Use Smartphones?

Original language description

Currently, there is a considerable increase in the number of older population groups worldwide. Therefore there is constant effort to prolong the active life of these older individuals as long as possible. And mobile devices such as smartphones seem to offer some benefits for enhancing the quality of life of seniors in the field of healthcare, independent living, socializing, or commerce. The purpose of this review study is to explore the main issues, benefits and limitations of the use of smartphones by older individuals. This is done by conducting a literature review in three acknowledged databases Web of Science, Scopus, and Science Direct, and consequently by comparing and evaluating the findings of the relevant research studies. Altogether seven original studies on the research topic were detected. The findings indicate that the smartphone use is not ubiquitous among the aging population groups, which is a pity since the use of smartphone could contribute to the improvement of quality of life of these older people and could increase seniors contributions to the society. Therefore there is an urgent call for the implementation of training in the smartphone use among the older generation groups in order to enable them to become aware of the benefits of smartphones for the enhancement of their quality of life. In addition, there is a need for evidence-based studies revealing the effectiveness of smartphone use by these people, as well as showing them the benefits of this use.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Advanced science letters

ISBN

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ISSN

1936-6612

e-ISSN

1936-7317

Number of pages

3

Pages from-to

2870-2872

Publisher name

American scientific publishers

Place of publication

Valencia

Event location

Phuket, Thajsko

Event date

Oct 10, 2017

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000432429600168