Exploring the Potential of Emerging Technologies to Meet the Care and Support Needs of Older People: A Delphi Survey.
Exploring the Potential of Emerging Technologies to Meet the Care and Support Needs of Older People: A Delphi Survey.
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10.3390/geriatrics6010019
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2021-02-13
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Hawley M
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Abdi S;Witte L;Hawley M
一些新兴技术有可能满足老年人的护理和支持需求。然而，关于这些技术在某些护理领域的潜在用途的知识仍然存在差距。因此，进行了两轮德尔菲调查，以建立一组健康和社会技术专家（n = 21）对10种新兴技术在五个护理和支持领域满足老年人需求的潜力的共识意见。专家们还被要求提供他们选择自由文本空间的理由。共识水平设定为70%。使用主题分析对自由文本回复进行分析。声控设备是在所有评估的护理领域达成专家共识的技术。一些技术（例如，支持人工智能（AI）的应用程序和可穿戴设备以及支持物联网（IoT）的家庭）也显示出支持基本自我护理和满足老年人医疗保健需求的潜力。然而，大多数剩余的技术（如机器人、外骨骼、虚拟和增强现实（VR/AR））面临一系列技术和可接受性问题，这些问题可能会阻碍老年人在不久的将来采用它们。研究结果应鼓励研发界解决一些已确定的挑战，以改善老年人对新兴技术的采用。
Some emerging technologies have potential to address older people’s care and support needs. However, there is still a gap in the knowledge on the potential uses of these technologies in some care domains. Therefore, a two-round Delphi survey was conducted to establish a consensus of opinion from a group of health and social technology experts (n = 21) on the potential of 10 emerging technologies to meet older people’s needs in five care and support domains. Experts were also asked to provide reasons for their choices in free-text spaces. The consensus level was set at 70%. Free-text responses were analyzed using thematic analysis. Voice activated devices was the technology that reached experts consensus in all assessed care domains. Some technologies (e.g., Artificial intelligence (AI) enabled apps and wearables and Internet of things (IoT) enabled homes) also show potential to support basic self-care and access to healthcare needs of older people. However, most of the remaining technologies (e.g., robotics, exoskeletons, virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR)) face a range of technical and acceptability issues that may hinder their adoption by older people in the near future. Findings should encourage the R & D community to address some of the identified challenges to improve the adoption of emerging technologies by older people.