Some Reflections on Designing Effective Social Telerehabilitation Services for Older Adults

Authors

  • Gilberto Marzano Rezekne Academy of Technologies
  • Velta Lubkina Rezekne Academy of Technologies
  • Gatis Stafeckis

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/ijt.2016.6195

Abstract

The share of the population aged 65 years and over is increasing in every EU Member State, candidate country, and EFTA Member State. WHO/Europe has established a Subnetwork on Healthy Ageing within the European Healthy Cities Network and provides guidance to Member States in developing profiles of healthy ageing, since, given the increasing number of older adults, maintaining their health status is a crucial issue.  This article, which is part of the Latvian national scientific program VPP INOSOCTEREHI, focuses on the issues related to the design, implementation, and assessment of user interfaces that can maximize usability in social telerehabilitation systems for older adult users. This is a very real challenge, since older adults don’t form a homogeneous class. Investigating older adults’ skills and their attitudes towards the perceived usefulness of computer applications could be helpful in identifying some sub-sets of older adult users and their typical behaviours.


  

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2016-12-15

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Marzano, G., Lubkina, V., & Stafeckis, G. (2016). Some Reflections on Designing Effective Social Telerehabilitation Services for Older Adults. International Journal of Telerehabilitation, 8(2), 3–8. https://doi.org/10.5195/ijt.2016.6195

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