The Role of Virtual Reality in Improving Health Outcomes for Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Virtual reality (VR) delivered through immersive headsets creates an opportunity to deliver interventions to improve physical, mental, and psychosocial health outcomes. VR app studies with older adults have primarily focused on rehabilitation and physical function including gait, balance, fall prevention, pain management, and cognition. Several systematic reviews have previously been conducted, but much of the extant literature is focused on rehabilitation or other institutional settings, and little is known about the effectiveness of VR apps using immersive headsets to target health outcomes among community-dwelling older adults.

Objective

The objective of this review was to evaluate the effectiveness of VR apps delivered using commercially available immersive he

SUBMITTER: Dermody G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7296414 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature