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The increasing cost of senior healthcare represents a serious challenge to most developed countries. Telehealth has been widely promoted as a technology to make healthcare more effective and affordable, however, current telehealth systems suffer from vendor lock-in and high cost, and are designed for managing chronic diseases rather than preventing them. We propose a novel framework for telehealth systems aimed at overcoming these shortcomings through principles such as extensibility, accessibility, social support and motivational feedback. The framework was employed to develop a patient-centric telehealth system, Healthcare4Life, which was evaluated in a user study to draw conclusions about the feasibility and acceptance of such a system by seniors. The results indicate that seniors are capable and motivated to use a web-based telehealth system if it provides suitable health applications. Furthermore, the results suggest that such a system has the potential to affect seniors’ attitude towards their own health positively.
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Dhillon, J.S., Wünsche, B.C., Lutteroth, C. (2014). Designing and Evaluating Online Telehealth Systems for Seniors. In: Hippe, Z., Kulikowski, J., Mroczek, T., Wtorek, J. (eds) Human-Computer Systems Interaction: Backgrounds and Applications 3. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 300. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08491-6_14
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