Gerontechnology for better elderly care and life quality: a systematic literature review.
Gerontechnology as multidisciplinary research has expanded in recent years due to its significant role in ensuring better care and improved quality of life for older adults and their caregivers. With a substantial increase in studies on reasons behind less inclination of older individuals to accept...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Ageing Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 1 - 21 |
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Springer Nature
Mar2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=164482427&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 164482427 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 16139372 3RAL jtl: European Journal of Ageing issn: 16139372 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2023 vid: 20 iid: 1 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 164482427 10.1007/s10433-023-00776-9 ppf: 1 ppct: 20 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 580KB tig: atl: Gerontechnology for better elderly care and life quality: a systematic literature review. aug: au: Huang, Genghua Oteng, Samuel Ampadu affil: School of Graduate Studies and Institute of Policy Studies, Lingnan University, 8 Castle Peak Road, Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong School of Graduate Studies, Lingnan University, 8 Castle Peak Road, Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong keyword: Gerontechnology Health-related well-being Life quality Older persons Social caregivers Gerontechnology Health-related well-being Life quality Older persons Social caregivers ab: Gerontechnology as multidisciplinary research has expanded in recent years due to its significant role in ensuring better care and improved quality of life for older adults and their caregivers. With a substantial increase in studies on reasons behind less inclination of older individuals to accept gerontechnology, barriers to its non-acceptance appear to be persistent. In addition, there is a dearth of research on the adoption of gerontechnology from the perspectives of social caregivers, given that caregivers bear a substantial burden in the form of chronic stress, which adversely affects their health and that of older people. Therefore, the aim of this study is to present a holistic perspective of older adults and their caregivers by systematically reviewing literature on gerontechnology acceptance. Adopting the preferred reported items for systematic and meta-analysis (PRISMA) framework, publications specifically on gerontechnology from 2002 to 2022 in Scopus, Web of Science and PubMed, that focused on older people (50 years and above) and caregivers (informal and formal) were reviewed. We critically evaluated 25 publications and synthesised them thematically. The results highlight that gerontechnology acceptance by older adults and their social caregivers is highly contingent on certain personal, physical, socio-cultural and technological indicators. However, this paper concludes that a generalised policy approach for gerontechnology and a better quality of life may be ineffective, considering that older adults and social caregivers constitute two heterogeneous groups. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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