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DEVELOPING SOCIAL CONVOY PALLIATIVE CARE MOBILE HEALTH FOR OLDER ADULTS

Social Convoy Theory is well established in the gerontology literature and provides a framework for understanding the relationships of individuals in a group of people with whom they give and receive social support over the life-cycle. Previous research substantiates a link between the importance of...

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Autor principal: Portz, Jennifer D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6845161/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.721
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description Social Convoy Theory is well established in the gerontology literature and provides a framework for understanding the relationships of individuals in a group of people with whom they give and receive social support over the life-cycle. Previous research substantiates a link between the importance of social convoys and health outcomes among older adults with advanced illness. However, the concept of social convoy has not been applied to mobile health (mHealth) for palliative care. Often mHealth systems are designed for individual users, lacking innovative solutions for multiple, age-diverse, simultaneous users to maximize benefit. Therefore, the Social Convoy Palliative Care (Convoy-Pal) mobile application (K76AG059934) was developed using a rigorous iterative process with older patients, their social convoy, and health providers, to foster effective integration of the social convoy in palliative care-specific mHealth. Based on these findings, this presentation discusses strategies to design mHealth for a convoy of users in geriatric palliative care.
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spelling pubmed-68451612019-11-18 DEVELOPING SOCIAL CONVOY PALLIATIVE CARE MOBILE HEALTH FOR OLDER ADULTS Portz, Jennifer D Innov Aging Session 1080 (Symposium) Social Convoy Theory is well established in the gerontology literature and provides a framework for understanding the relationships of individuals in a group of people with whom they give and receive social support over the life-cycle. Previous research substantiates a link between the importance of social convoys and health outcomes among older adults with advanced illness. However, the concept of social convoy has not been applied to mobile health (mHealth) for palliative care. Often mHealth systems are designed for individual users, lacking innovative solutions for multiple, age-diverse, simultaneous users to maximize benefit. Therefore, the Social Convoy Palliative Care (Convoy-Pal) mobile application (K76AG059934) was developed using a rigorous iterative process with older patients, their social convoy, and health providers, to foster effective integration of the social convoy in palliative care-specific mHealth. Based on these findings, this presentation discusses strategies to design mHealth for a convoy of users in geriatric palliative care. Oxford University Press 2019-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6845161/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.721 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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DEVELOPING SOCIAL CONVOY PALLIATIVE CARE MOBILE HEALTH FOR OLDER ADULTS
title DEVELOPING SOCIAL CONVOY PALLIATIVE CARE MOBILE HEALTH FOR OLDER ADULTS
title_full DEVELOPING SOCIAL CONVOY PALLIATIVE CARE MOBILE HEALTH FOR OLDER ADULTS
title_fullStr DEVELOPING SOCIAL CONVOY PALLIATIVE CARE MOBILE HEALTH FOR OLDER ADULTS
title_full_unstemmed DEVELOPING SOCIAL CONVOY PALLIATIVE CARE MOBILE HEALTH FOR OLDER ADULTS
title_short DEVELOPING SOCIAL CONVOY PALLIATIVE CARE MOBILE HEALTH FOR OLDER ADULTS
title_sort developing social convoy palliative care mobile health for older adults
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