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Topic- Technology
Social media may help improve health literacy
Do you know how to read a nutrition label, or understand how to take medications that control diabetes, or how to follow post-surgery instructions?
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Virtual education and support helps women control diabetes
A group of 89 women with type 2 diabetes were randomly assigned to face-to-face counseling or to a web-based virtual community. The women, average age 52 years, were of African-American descent, had low incomes, high school educations and a range of experience with computers. The women in the virtual “Women in Control” group used avatars (illustrations of themselves) as did the instructors.
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Older adults with smartphones use their apps
People ages 55 and older who own smartphones use 22 apps each month and spend about 21 hours per month using those apps, found a survey of people 18 years and older in the United States.
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To tech or not to tech? Older adults are ambivalent
Earlier in 2014, more than 130 Chief Financial Officers at senior living organizations reported that their investments in the prior 12 months was largest for high-speed Internet connections (86%), resident/client access to the Internet and social networking (73.9%) and electronic point of care/point of service systems (67.2%) (Ziegler CFO Hotline Technology Spending, February 2014). What are older adults thinking about their technology investments?
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Technology may help reduce social isolation
A small group of 17 people, average age 87, who lived in a residential care home due to physical limitations were introduced to software they could use for three different activities: leisure games, a journal editing tool and an intuitive emailing device.
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Using the Internet may help reduce risk of depression
At four time points, 3,075 participants in the Health and Retirement Survey (2002-2008) reported on their feelings of depression and use of the Internet.
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