Development and usability evaluation of VOICES: A digital health tool to identify elder mistreatment.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

A major barrier for society in overcoming elder mistreatment is an inability to accurately identify victims. There are several barriers to self-reporting elder mistreatment, including fear of nursing home placement or losing autonomy or a caregiver. Existing strategies to identify elder mistreatment neglect to empower those who experience it with tools for self-reporting. In this project, we developed and evaluated the usability of VOICES, a self-administrated digital health tool that screens, educates, and motivates older adults to self-report elder mistreatment.

Design

Cross-sectional study with User-Centered Design (UCD) approach.

Setting

Yale School of Medicine and the Agency on Aging of South-Central Connecticut.

Participants

Thirty e

SUBMITTER: Abujarad F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8192463 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature