Vancea Mihaela, Solé-Casals Jordi
1Núcleo de Investigación Científica y Desarrollo Tecnológico en Ciencias Sociales y las Humanidades Universidad de la Frontera, Chile.
2Data and Signal Processing Research Group, U Sciences Tech, University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia, Spain.
Aging Dis. 2015 Dec 14;7(4):526-39. doi: 10.14336/AD.2015.1214. eCollection 2016 Aug.
Population ageing is one of the major social and economic challenges of our contemporary societies. With the advent of the information society, new research and technological developments have been promoted in the field of assistive technologies and information and communication technologies of benefit to elderly people. This article examines the potentialities of new informatics developments in generating solutions to better address elderly people's daily-life, especially those with chronic illness and/or low autonomy. The authours attempt to propose a research agenda, by exposing various strengts and weaknesses of eHealth innovations for elderly, mainly grounded in secondary sources analysis.
人口老龄化是当代社会面临的主要社会和经济挑战之一。随着信息社会的到来,辅助技术以及对老年人有益的信息和通信技术领域出现了新的研究和技术发展。本文探讨了新的信息学发展在生成解决方案以更好地应对老年人日常生活方面的潜力,尤其是那些患有慢性病和/或自主性较低的老年人。作者试图通过主要基于二手资料分析揭示电子健康创新对老年人的各种优势和劣势,来提出一个研究议程。