Health-Seeking Behavior and Its Associated Technology Use: Interview Study Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding older people's health-seeking behavior (HSB) is crucial for uncovering their health needs and priorities and developing appropriate policies to address them and avert their disease progression. Technologies play an active role in our daily lives and have been incorporated into health activities to support the older population and facilitate their HSB. However, previous studies of HSB have mainly focused on behaviors during illness, and there are limited studies on how technologies have been used in older people's health-seeking activities.

Objective

This study aimed to investigate HSB and the associated technology use among the older population, ultimately proposing implications for practice to address their unmet health needs.

Methods

This pa

SUBMITTER: Zhang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10196894 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature