Aging population challenges: enhancing healthy aging practices through virtual coaching systems
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Virtual Coaching Systems (VCSs) can improve healthy aging for older adults. Perceived usefulness and ease of use drive adoption, while health literacy impacts usefulness negatively but ease of use positively.
Area Of Science
- Gerontology
- Health Informatics
- Human-Computer Interaction
Background
- Global population aging presents healthcare challenges.
- Digital technologies, specifically Virtual Coaching Systems (VCSs), offer solutions for healthy aging.
- The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) is extended with subjective norms, health literacy, and IT literacy for older adults.
Purpose Of The Study
- To investigate the acceptance of Virtual Coaching Systems (VCSs) among older adults.
- To identify key determinants influencing the adoption of digital health technologies for healthy aging.
- To understand how factors like health literacy and IT literacy impact VCS use.
Main Methods
- Empirical study with 436 Italian adults aged 60+.
- Development and testing of a structural equation model.
- Analysis based on an extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM).
Main Results
- Perceived usefulness and ease of use positively impact intention to use VCSs.
- Subjective norms indirectly influence VCS use through perceived ease of use and usefulness.
- Health literacy negatively affects perceived usefulness but positively impacts perceived ease of use; IT literacy positively impacts perceived ease of use.
Conclusions
- Findings inform strategies for digital health interventions for aging populations.
- Highlights the importance of a collaborative approach among stakeholders.
- VCSs can enhance quality of life for older adults and support healthcare sustainability.
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