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Changes in Older Adults’ Attitudes and Use of Health Information and Communication Technology from 2019 to 2022

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The aim of the study is to explore the adoption of a national health ICT system by people at the age of 56 years and older. Research questions were: (1) How do older adults use healthcare ICT to access information about their health history and about healthy lifestyle? (2) How do they evaluate their possibilities to adopt new ICT? A survey method was used, and changes in the period 2019 to 2022 were examined. The main findings are that a positive change was found in people’s use of the system for communicating with health professionals and gaining information tailored to their own health. No increase was found in the use of it for obtaining information about various other health related issues. Furthermore, a positive change had happened from 2019 to 2022 regarding people’s perceptions of their possibilities to adopt new health ICT.

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Acknowledgments. The research project was supported by the University of Iceland Research Fund.

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Pálsdóttir, Á. (2024). Changes in Older Adults’ Attitudes and Use of Health Information and Communication Technology from 2019 to 2022. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., et al. Information Experience and Information Literacy. ECIL 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2042. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53001-2_15

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