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- Title
Personalized Mobile Health for Elderly Home Care: A Systematic Review of Benefits and Challenges.
- Authors
Pahlevanynejad, Shahrbanoo; Niakan Kalhori, Sharareh R.; Katigari, Meysam Rahmani; Eshpala, Rahil Hosseini
- Abstract
Mobile health as one of the new technologies can be a proper solution to support care provision for the elderly and provide personalized care for them. This study is aimed at reviewing the benefits and challenges of personalized mobile health (PMH) for elderly home care. With a systematic review methodology, 1895 records were retrieved by searching four databases. After removing duplicates, 1703 articles remained. Following full-text examination, 21 articles that met the inclusion criteria were studied in detail, and the output was presented in different tables. The results indicated that 25% of the challenges were related to privacy, cybersecurity, and data ownership (10%), technology (7.5%), and implementation (7.5%). The most frequent benefits were related to cost-saving (17.5%), nurse engagement improvement (10%), and caregiver stress reduction (7.5%). In general, the number of benefits in this study was slightly higher than the challenges, but in order to use PMH technologies, the challenges presented in this study must be carefully considered and a suitable solution must be adopted. Benefits can also be helpful in persuading individuals and health-care providers. This study shed light on those points that need to be highlighted for further work in order to convert the challenges toward benefits.
- Subjects
HOME care services; MOBILE health; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; BURDEN of care; DATABASE searching; ELDER care
- Publication
International Journal of Telemedicine & Applications, 2023, p1
- ISSN
1687-6415
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2023/5390712