TY  - JOUR
U1  - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
A1  - Gaiduk, Maksym
A1  - Seepold, Ralf
A1  - Martínez Madrid, Natividad
A1  - Ortega, Juan Antonio
T1  - Digital health and care study on elderly monitoring
JF  - Sustainability
N2  - Sustainable technologies are being increasingly used in various areas of human life. While they have a multitude of benefits, they are especially useful in health monitoring, especially for certain groups of people, such as the elderly. However, there are still several issues that need to be addressed before its use becomes widespread. This work aims to clarify the aspects that are of great importance for increasing the acceptance of the use of this type of technology in the elderly. In addition, we aim to clarify whether the technologies that are already available are able to ensure acceptable accuracy and whether they could replace some of the manual approaches that are currently being used. A two-week study with people 65 years of age and over was conducted to address the questions posed here, and the results were evaluated. It was demonstrated that simplicity of use and automatic functioning play a crucial role. It was also concluded that technology cannot yet completely replace traditional methods such as questionnaires in some areas. Although the technologies that were tested were classified as being “easy to use”, the elderly population in the current study indicated that they were not sure that they would use these technologies regularly in the long term because the added value is not always clear, among other issues. Therefore, awareness-raising must take place in parallel with the development of technologies and services.
KW  - home health systems
KW  - technology acceptance
KW  - sustainable technologies
KW  - sleep monitoring
Y1  - 2021
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-33492
SN  - 2071-1050
SS  - 2071-1050
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/su132313376
DO  - https://doi.org/10.3390/su132313376
VL  - 13
IS  - 23
SP  - 18
S1  - 18
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  -