Ikääntyvien terveystietokäyttäytyminen ja hyödylliseksi koetut digitaaliset terveyspalvelut

We report findings of the project Taking Health Information Behaviour into Account: implications of a neglected element for successful implementation of consumer health technologies on older adults (HIBA) based at Åbo Akademi University. The results stress that a key reason for digital health services (e-health) not being used or considered useful is that they are developed without fully considering how they align with the life-context and everyday-information behaviours of their intended users. Older adults’ (50–70y) experiences of technologies and the information they convey vary and should be treated as two distinct facets of whether a particular service is found useful. Instead of focussing on specific systems, the emphasis of developing e-health services should be put on solving people’s changing needs relating to their everyday challenges, well-being, and access to information they themselves find useful.