美国社区居住的老年人使用数字技术,有和没有家庭状态
Wenting Peng1, Gangjiao Zhu2, Zengyu Chen3
1Clinical Nursing Teaching and Research Section, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China; de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging, School of Nursing, University of Washington-Seattle, Seattle, WA, USA; School of Nursing, University of Washington-Seattle, Seattle, WA, USA.
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
|September 25, 2024
概括
在家工作的老年人使用数字技术的频率比不使用数字技术的老年人少. 加强数字化包容对于确保所有老年人从技术中受益至关重要.
科学领域:
- 老年学是指老年学的学科.
- 医疗信息学 医疗信息学
- 技术社会学技术的社会学.
背景情况:
- 家庭状态显著影响老年人对资源的获取和社会参与.
- 数字技术为老年人的健康管理,沟通和日常生活提供了潜在的好处.
- 对于有针对性的干预措施来说,了解老年人,特别是那些移动能力有限的人的数字沟至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 确定在社区居住的老年人中使用数字技术 (ICT,日常和健康技术) 的普遍程度.
- 为了调查家庭状态和各种数字技术的使用之间的关联.
主要方法:
- 采用2022年国家健康与衰老趋势研究 (NHATS) 数据集的横截面研究.
- 包括5510个居住在社区的老年人.
- 通过自我报告的结果评估数字技术的使用情况,并通过与流动性相关的问题评估家庭状态.
- 应用调查加权二项式逻辑回归来分析关联.
主要成果:
- 家庭老年人的患病率为5.2%.
- 与非家庭 (98.5%) 相比,在家庭 (88.5%) 和半家庭 (93.3%) 的老年人中,数字技术的使用率较低.
- 与未在家的同龄人相比,回家和半回家的个人使用电子邮件,互联网和用于医疗保健和保险管理的数字工具的几率明显较低.
结论:
- 非家庭老年人的数字技术采用率高于家庭老年人的数字技术采用率.
- 目前存在着巨大的数字沟,无路可走的老年人面临着更大的技术获取和利用障碍.
- 公共卫生倡议必须优先考虑数字化包容战略,使所有老年人能够利用数字技术的好处.
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