The impact of family members on aging persons' technology use intentions.

ABSTRACT: Technology plays a growing role in allowing aging persons to live independently. However, it is often difficult to motivate aging persons to use these new technologies. Using 182 dyads of aging persons and their primary family caregiver, this study investigates how family members' beliefs about the capabilities of the aging person are associated with the aging person's engagement in using healthcare technology-a phenomenon known as the Pygmalion effect. A quantitative statistical method response-surface analysis (RSA) was performed. RSA is often employed to understand complex, nonlinear interactions within a data set. It was investigated how the level of fit (when both the aging person and his or her family caregiver hold similar beliefs about the technological capabilities of the aging pe

SUBMITTER: Van Baelen F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11815942 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature