Paper Info
Title
Social Engagement in Elderly Care Homes: Towards Designing an Application to Reduce Social Loneliness.
Abstract
This paper presents an application that is designed to reduce the loneliness of elderly and to support them in elderly care homes. The social application 'APPointment' allows users to plan social activities to undertake with fellows living within a closed community. The app was designed after conducting extensive user research and evaluation sessions with elderly. The results indicate that the target user group found the new app accessible, easy to use and most importantly quite effective in improving their social lives at the elderly care home.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-21380-4_56
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Elderly,Social loneliness,Social isolation,Application,Social engagement,Healthcare
Health care,Social isolation,Computer science,User Research,Social engagement,Multimedia,Applied psychology,Loneliness
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
528
1865-0929
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
1
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jip ter Voort110.39
Joey Radstaat210.39
Marisse Douma310.39
Laura Clarijs410.39
Roxanne Arnts510.39
Suleman Shahid63317.98