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Older adults’ technology use and its association with health and depressive symptoms: Findings from the 2011 National Health and Aging Trends Study

BACKGROUND: Information and communication technology (ICT) provides older adults with access to information and resources that benefit their health. PURPOSE: To explore ICT use among older adults and examine the influence of information technology (IT), communication technology (CT), or ICT use on o...

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Autores principales: Kim, Jeehoon, Lee, Hee Yun, Won, Cho Rong, Barr, Tina, Merighi, Joseph R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7205676/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32527596
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2020.05.001
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Lee, Hee Yun
Won, Cho Rong
Barr, Tina
Merighi, Joseph R.
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description BACKGROUND: Information and communication technology (ICT) provides older adults with access to information and resources that benefit their health. PURPOSE: To explore ICT use among older adults and examine the influence of information technology (IT), communication technology (CT), or ICT use on older adults’ self-rated health status and depressive symptoms. METHOD: A sample of community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older in the United States (N = 4,976) from the 2011 National Health and Aging Trends Study. FINDINGS: Older adults who embraced ICT and used this technology for a variety of purposes were more likely to report better health status, and were less likely to experience major depressive symptoms than nonusers. DISCUSSION: In accordance with the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, nursing professional can play an important role by responding to older adults’ diverse technology preferences and effectively incorporating them into nursing practice.
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spelling pubmed-72056762020-05-08 Older adults’ technology use and its association with health and depressive symptoms: Findings from the 2011 National Health and Aging Trends Study Kim, Jeehoon Lee, Hee Yun Won, Cho Rong Barr, Tina Merighi, Joseph R. Nurs Outlook Article BACKGROUND: Information and communication technology (ICT) provides older adults with access to information and resources that benefit their health. PURPOSE: To explore ICT use among older adults and examine the influence of information technology (IT), communication technology (CT), or ICT use on older adults’ self-rated health status and depressive symptoms. METHOD: A sample of community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older in the United States (N = 4,976) from the 2011 National Health and Aging Trends Study. FINDINGS: Older adults who embraced ICT and used this technology for a variety of purposes were more likely to report better health status, and were less likely to experience major depressive symptoms than nonusers. DISCUSSION: In accordance with the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, nursing professional can play an important role by responding to older adults’ diverse technology preferences and effectively incorporating them into nursing practice. Elsevier Inc. 2020 2020-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7205676/ /pubmed/32527596 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2020.05.001 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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title_short Older adults’ technology use and its association with health and depressive symptoms: Findings from the 2011 National Health and Aging Trends Study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7205676/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32527596
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2020.05.001
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