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- Title
Asnapshot of the Mobile Health And Social Services In Elderly People; Policy And Problem Oriented Approach.
- Authors
Vasokolaei, Ghasem Rajabi; Rahmani, Hojjat; Allame, Hesamoddin
- Abstract
Background: Social, welfare, economic and biological changes have made the elderly an important and growing group in society. Paying attention to information technology and designing services based on it is an effective and new strategy in managing old age affairs. Objective: Explain the Use of Telemedicine and Mobile-based Care for the Aging and Recognize Opportunities, Strengths and Challenge. Material and Methods: Articles were extracted, using PubMed, EMBASE, Scopus, and Google Scholar search engines, searching terms: "elderly people", "mobile health", "mobile health services", "Elderly Mobile Health" in titles, abstracts and keywords. We focused our search on papers published after the year 2010 with sample sizes greater than ten. Results: In conducting a literature review, the result divided Opportunities, Strengths into four sections: Awareness, self-care and independence of the elderly; Accessibility and availability; Management and productivity and cognitive function. We also divided the obstacles into 3 parts: Structural; Legal; Costs and tariffs and Cultural, informational and cognitive. Conclusion: Such strategies: Promoting the empowerment of the elderly according to the rapid growth of technology, Promoting new educational technologies to gain new knowledge and skills, using modern technologies for improving service provision and Justice in the distribution and allocation of resources, Clarifying the mechanism to establish needs-based data banks for older persons, Evidence-based policy making and planning with a future-oriented approach can help the development of mobile health technology.
- Subjects
GOOGLE Scholar (Web resource); OLDER people; SOCIAL services; MOBILE health; MEDICAL care; MEDICAL technology; EDUCATIONAL technology
- Publication
Journal of Biomedical Physics & Engineering, 2021, Vol 11, p11
- ISSN
2251-7200
- Publication type
Article