The opportunities and challenges of using mobile health in elderly self‑care
نویسندگان
1 Department of Management and Health Information Technology, School of Management and Medical Information Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Health Information Technology Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
2 Department of Management and Health Information Technology, School of Management and Medical Information Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences,
3 Department of Management and Health Information Technology, School of Management and Medical Information Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Health Information Technology Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
4 Department of Management and Health Information Technology, School of Management and Medical Information Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Health Information Technology Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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چکیده
Population aging is a phenomenon expanding around the world and will be increase the incidenceof chronic diseases and health costs. This study was conducted according to the preferred reportingitems for systematic reviews and meta‑analyses (PRISMA). A comprehensive literature search wasperformed on 4 databases (Web of Science, PubMed, Science Direct, and ProQuest) for Englishlanguage studies from January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2019. The keywords used to extract relevantcontents were “e‑health,” “Elderly care,” “Self‑care,” “challenge,” “Opportunity” etc., The searchstrategy led to a total of 638 potentially relevant papers, of which 19 papers met the inclusion criteria.The results showed that the challenges of using mobile health in elderly self‑care can be divided intotechnical, human and managerial challenges. The resulting opportunities include reducing health carecosts; no need to visit verbal and remote access to elderly information. The use of mobile health inthe elderly has advantages and disadvantages. One of the advantages of that is improving physicalactivity and reducing care costs, but it may break the privacy. The disadvantages of that can beresolved by educating the elder men.
