Exploring Older Adults’ Needs for a Healthy Life and eHealth: Qualitative Interview Study

JMIR Human Factors, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 12, P. e50329 - e50329

Published: Jan. 8, 2025

Background Aging brings physical and life changes that could benefit from eHealth services. holistically combines technology, tasks, individuals, contexts, all these intertwined elements should be considered in development. As users’ needs change with situations, including aging retirement, it is important to identify at different stages develop services for well-being active, healthy lives. Objective This study aimed (1) understand older adults’ everyday lives terms of health, (2) investigate services, (3) create design recommendations based on the findings. Methods A total 20 adults 2 age groups (55 74 years: n=12, 60%; >75 n=8, 40%) participated this qualitative interview study. The data were collected remotely using a cultural probes package included diary-based sentence completion 4 background questionnaires; we also performed remote, semistructured interviews. gathered between fall 2020 spring 2021 Finland as part Toward Socially Inclusive Digital Society: Transforming Service Culture (DigiIN) project (2019 2025). Results In daily adults, home-based activities, such exercising (72/622, 11.6% mentions), sleeping (51/622, 8.2% dining cooking (96/622, 15.4% promoted health. When discussing their participants highlighted preference chat function. However, they frequently mentioned barriers concerns lack human contact, inefficiency, difficulties systems. Older value flexibility; testing possibilities (eg, trial versions); support digital services; relevant, empathetically offered content short-term long-term bases changing situations. Conclusions Many routines time spent home. diversity by making possible them manage health safely flexibly devices channels. adapt through motivation, personalized content, appropriate functions. Importantly, still have option not use

Language: Английский

Exploring child and youth understanding of loneliness through qualitative insights and evaluating loneliness measures considering those lived experiences

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 28, 2025

Abstract The overall goal of this paper is to enhance the understanding and measurement loneliness by identifying key experiential characteristics in children adolescents, determine whether there a need for refined assessment tools that accurately capture experience. In Study 1, we synthesized qualitative research on child youth experience found shared loneliness, with some differences related developmental changes (e.g., contexts influencing loneliness). 2, reviewed items from questionnaires they do not fully affective dimension is, breadth emotions associated loneliness. That gap could lead an incomplete phenomenon, potentially undermining validity findings effectiveness interventions designed alleviate because underplay distress young people. Addressing shortcoming should include development and/or refinement measurements youth, enhancing accuracy relevance assessments.

Language: Английский