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Abstract
Purpose –: Smart home (SH) internet of things can promote home safety, health monitoring and independence of older adults to age-in-place. Despite its commercial growth, low adoption rates of the technology among aging consumers remain a major barrier. The purpose of this study is to examine SH technology ownership of older adults and its causal pathways with demographics, health and functioning, home safety and information communication technology (ICT) use.
Design/methodology/approach –: A survey on technology-mediated aging-in-place was completed by 447 respondents, 65 years and older. Structural equation modeling was used to underscore the causal pathways among demographics, health, independence and home safety, ICT and home automation technology adoption.
Findings –: The study found that ICT usability, home security and independence have a significant direct effect on SH ownership. Demographics had no significant direct effect, but its influence was mediated through ICT usability. With home safety as mediator, physical impairment, falls and accidents and independence had a significant association with SH ownership. Similarly, increased social support (mediated through home security) decreased the probability of SH automation ownership.
Originality/value –: The findings signify the perceived usefulness of SH automation as theorized in technology acceptance models.
目的智能家居（SH）物联网可促进家庭安全、健康监测和老年人居家养老的独立性。尽管该技术在商业上得到了发展，但在老年消费者中的低采用率仍然是一个主要障碍。本研究旨在调查老年人对 SH 技术的拥有情况及其与人口统计学、健康和功能、家庭安全和信息通信技术（ICT）使用之间的因果关系：447 名 65 岁及以上的受访者完成了一项以技术为媒介的就地养老调查。采用结构方程模型来强调人口统计学、健康、独立性和家庭安全、信息和通信技术以及家庭自动化技术采用之间的因果关系：研究发现，信息和通信技术的可用性、家庭安全性和独立性对拥有住房有显著的直接影响。人口统计学没有明显的直接影响，但其影响通过信息和通信技术的可用性得到了调节。以家庭安全为中介，身体损伤、跌倒和事故以及独立性与拥有住房有明显的关联。同样，社会支持的增加（通过家庭安全作为中介）降低了拥有 SH 自动化的概率：研究结果表明，正如技术接受模型所推测的那样，人们认为 SH 自动化非常有用。
期刊介绍：
The Journal of Enabling Technologies (JET) seeks to provide a strong, insightful, international, and multi-disciplinary evidence-base in health, social care, and education. This focus is applied to how technologies can be enabling for children, young people and adults in varied and different aspects of their lives. The focus remains firmly on reporting innovations around how technologies are used and evaluated in practice, and the impact that they have on the people using them. In addition, the journal has a keen focus on drawing out practical implications for users and how/why technology may have a positive impact. This includes messages for users, practitioners, researchers, stakeholders and caregivers (in the broadest sense). The impact of research in this arena is vital and therefore we are committed to publishing work that helps draw this out; thus providing implications for practice. JET aims to raise awareness of available and developing technologies and their uses in health, social care and education for a wide and varied readership. The areas in which technologies can be enabling for the scope of JET include, but are not limited to: Communication and interaction, Learning, Independence and autonomy, Identity and culture, Safety, Health, Care and support, Wellbeing, Quality of life, Access to services.
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