Name
Title | ||
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Designing a wellness self-management tool for older adults: results from a field trial of YourWellness |
Abstract | ||
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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. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2014 | 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.254950 | PervasiveHealth |
Keywords | DocType | Citations |
feedback,older adults,self-management,wellness | Conference | 4 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.45 | 9 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julie Doyle | 1 | 92 | 11.76 |
| Lorcan Walsh | 2 | 26 | 5.07 |
| Antonella Sassu | 3 | 4 | 0.79 |
| Teresa McDonagh | 4 | 4 | 0.79 |