Gerontechnology — new opportunities in the service of older adults

Q2 Engineering

Engineering Management in Production and Services Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI:10.2478/emj-2021-0025

K. Halicka, D. Surel

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Abstract

Abstract The increasingly more visible trend of population ageing necessitates creating technologies supporting the functioning of older adults. Consequently, more gerontechnologies emerge designed to help the older adults in their daily functioning, from devices monitoring the health to special trolleys improving the mobility or Virtual Reality devices for active learning. This article aimed to determine the most desired group of gerontechnologies among current and future users. It focused on individual assessments of the most desirable group of gerontechnologies based on various criteria. The investigation aimed to find the criterion rated the highest in the selected group of gerontechnologies. The gerontechnology group was assessed against seven groups of criteria distinguished by the authors, i.e., Technology Innovation, Technology Demand, Social and Ethical Criteria, Technology Usability, Technology Functionality, Technology Ease of Use and Technology Use Risk. The survey was conducted in the form of a questionnaire, using CAWI (Computer-Assisted Web Interview) and CATI (Computer-Assisted Telephone Interview) methods, with the research sample comprised of 1 152 residents of Poland. Thus far, no studies have been conducted to evaluate this group of technologies based on the above-mentioned criteria.

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老年技术——为老年人服务的新机遇

摘要日益明显的人口老龄化趋势需要创造支持老年人功能的技术。因此，出现了更多旨在帮助老年人日常生活的老年技术，从监测健康的设备到提高机动性的特殊手推车或用于主动学习的虚拟现实设备。本文旨在确定当前和未来用户最希望使用的老年技术组。它侧重于根据各种标准对最理想的老年技术群体进行个人评估。这项调查旨在找出在选定的老年技术组中评分最高的标准。老年技术组根据作者区分的七组标准进行评估，即技术创新、技术需求、社会和道德标准、技术可用性、技术功能、技术易用性和技术使用风险。该调查以问卷形式进行，采用CAWI（计算机辅助网络访谈）和CATI（计算机辅助电话访谈）方法，研究样本包括152名波兰居民。到目前为止，还没有根据上述标准对这组技术进行评估的研究。

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