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Designing a wellness self-management tool for older adults: results from a field trial of YourWellness

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Antonella Sassu,

Teresa McDonaghAuthors Info & Claims

PervasiveHealth '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Pages 134 - 141

https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.254950

Published: 20 May 2014 Publication History

Abstract

It is recognized that empowering individuals to manage their own health and wellbeing will result in more cost-effective healthcare systems, improved health outcomes and will encourage healthy individuals to remain that way. With the advent of the quantified-self movement in recent years, there has been an increase in technology applications supporting wellness self-management. Such applications allow people to self-track and self-report, with many providing feedback. However, little research in this area has examined how best to support older adults in health self-management. This paper reports findings from a 5-month home deployment of YourWellness -- an application that supports older adults in self-reporting on their wellbeing and provides feedback to promote positive wellbeing management. Our findings contribute to a greater understanding of older adults' attitudes and behaviours in relation to wellbeing self-management that can facilitate the creation of new, personalized health and wellbeing interventions for this population.

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PervasiveHealth '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

May 2014

459 pages

ISBN:9781631900112

General Chair:
Andreas Hein
OFFIS-Institute for IT, Oldenburg, Germany
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Susanne Boll
OFFIS-Institute for IT, Oldenburg, Germany
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Friedrich Köhler
Charité, Berlin, Germany

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