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In spite of the great potential for the development of mobile banking in Brazil, since the banking index reaches more than half of the population and the number of Internet users is even higher, this potential is not evenly distributed among the age groups in the country. Taking into account the tendency to resist new technologies as one ages, this study aimed to identify the factors which lead the...
Depression in older adults is a pervasive and complex issue associated with poor health outcomes (Carter, Rodda & Walker, 2011). TELEPROM-G is a mobile-based TELEmedicine and Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement (PROM) platform designed to enhance delivery of health services among community-based older adults. This one-year pilot study will develop and test a digital system for treating 30 adults...
This work consists in a wireless sensor network implementation(in the future WSN), wireless data networks and mobile phone service in order to follow people whose situation in the daily life is alone, isolated or with a particular impaired, making possible the alarms signal sending to the customized recipients in the application in use. This system is designed to detect or prevent different domestic...
Mobile technology has the potential to improve the health, wellbeing, and quality life for individuals and groups. For example, medical-related applications have been developed to assist doctors in caring for patients and to assist patients in self-managing chronic conditions, and to assist caregivers in caring for loved ones[1][2]. Though mobile technologies have been developed for a wide range of...
In recent years, the increase in aging population in developed countries has become one of the most important societal challenges. It is becoming more and more important to ensure quality care and services in countries with a rapidly increasing ageing population and find solutions to lower the costs of healthcare. Digital technologies could present a solution in the form of digital health but the...
The application of Mobile Persuasive Technology for adjusting health attitudes and behaviors of the elderly is one of the key approaches used to solve problems of personal health care in the elderly. This paper analyzes the situation as well as the appropriateness of the use of such technology in the face of health care issues of the elderly in Thailand. The analysis shows that, currently, the mHealth...
This paper reports on qualitative findings that have been obtained from a study about mobile phone usage by Malaysian older people. The information has been classified into various categories such as usage, difficulties encountered with the physical interface of the mobile phone, functions complexity, cost, language related issues, ideal phone and etc. In this study, two similar experiments were carried...
Increasing trends in using augmented reality applications on mobile devices among older people have been observed. It is well recognized that some problems are faced by older people in adopting mobile devices. It is vital to understand the problems in order to design better mobile devices that suit older people since they will make up the highest proportion of the population in later years. The paper...
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