Telehealth for "the Digital Illiterate": Elderly Heart Failure Patients Experiences
2014 (English)In: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, IOS Press , 2014, Vol. 205, p. 353-357Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Telehealth solutions should be available also for elderly patients with no interest in using, or capacity to use, computers and smartphones. Fourteen elderly, severely ill heart failure patients in home care participated in a telehealth study and used digital pens for daily reporting of their health state- A technology never used before by this patient group. After the study seven patients and two spouses were interviewed face-to-face. A qualitative content analysis of the interview material was performed. The informants had no experience of computers or the Internet and no interest in learning. Still, patients found the digital pen and the health diary form easy to use, thus effortlessly adopting to changes in care provision. They experienced an improved contact with the caregivers and had a sense of increased security despite a multimorbid state. Our study shows that, given that technologies are tailored to specific patient groups, even 'the digital illiterate' may use the Internet.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IOS Press , 2014. Vol. 205, p. 353-357
Keywords [en]
digital pen, heart failure, home care services, Telemedicine, Cardiology, Home health care, mHealth, Content analysis, Digital pens, Face to face, Health state, Home-care services, Tele-health solutions, Telehealth, Medical computing, aged, attitude to computers, biomedical technology assessment, computer interface, devices, female, geriatric assessment, human, human computer interaction, male, medical record, microcomputer, patient satisfaction, procedures, self care, statistics and numerical data, Sweden, very elderly, Aged, 80 and over, Computer Literacy, Computers, Handheld, Humans, Medical Records, Technology Assessment, Biomedical, User-Computer Interface
National Category
Engineering and Technology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-46181DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-432-9-353Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84929511796ISBN: 9781614994312 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-46181DiVA, id: diva2:1459064
Conference
25th European Medical Informatics Conference, MIE 2014; Istanbul; Turkey; 31 August 2014 through 3 September 2014
2020-08-192020-08-192023-12-05Bibliographically approved