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- Title
Investigating the effect of mobile Health in improvement the health of the elderly: A systematic review.
- Authors
Seyyed Esmaeil Amiri, Fariba Sadat Agha; Khoshkangin, Atefeh; Ghaddaripouri, Kosar; Mazaheri Habibi, Mohammad Reza
- Abstract
Background: With the increase in the number of elderly people in the community, we are need new health care strategies that can affect the behavior and lifestyle of older people. Mobile health (m-Health) as an important part of electronic health (e-Health) can play an important role in this. Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of mobile Health on improvement the health of the elderly people. Material and Methods: This study was conducted in the database of PubMed, Scopus, Google scholar from January 1990 to December 2020, by searching for keywords included, Mobile health, elderly, Smartphone application, and m-Health in title and abstract. Inclusion criteria included all studies published in English that examined the effect of m-Health on improvement the health of the elderly. Other studies were excluded due to non-aging and unrelated target groups. Results: From a total of 4798 studies, 16 eligible articles were selected after evaluation. Findings showed that m-Health can improve self-management, cognitive capacity, behavioral promotion (diet, physical activity and mental health) and adherence to medication. Conclusion: M-Health technology is a suitable tool for the elderly in diagnosing disease, changing lifestyle, managing dialysis and Alzheimer's diseases. It seems that m-Health can improve health. Also, age, physical and psychological changes have reduced m-Health acceptance and interaction with the elderly, which seems to be able to increase the level of m-Health acceptance and acceptance by educating these people.
- Subjects
GOOGLE Inc.; OLDER people; MOBILE health; MOBILE apps; HEALTH of older people; HEALTH care reminder systems; KEYWORD searching; PATIENT compliance; ALZHEIMER'S disease
- Publication
Journal of Biomedical Physics & Engineering, 2021, Vol 11, p159
- ISSN
2251-7200
- Publication type
Article