New Insights into the end-User Requirements for Remote Monitoring for Aging at Home Contributions to the Third Digital Divide

Cosmina Paul, Andreea Stamate, Luiza Spiru

2024

Abstract

Well-being and independence are highly valued in Western European countries. Though, we need a more in-depth understanding of how older adults and their next of kin perceive how monitoring technologies can support ageing at home. Older adults are the most heterogeneous population in terms of health and functional status comparative to all the other age groups and their formal and informal caregivers need also to be accounted for in this endeavor. Therefore, the understanding of the process of accepting and adopting new monitoring products is cumbersome as the current low adoption rates show despite innovators promises. By employing a gerontographics approach, we aim at understanding what are the older adults’ expectations from remote monitoring, a growing industry but with a low adoption rate. Hence, we have concluded that a) all categories are interested in alarm features rather than day to day monitoring, b) the more independent one is, more interested is in controlling/ handling the device, c) those psychologically well are rather stressed about monitoring and prefer not to trade their privacy for safety,) all next of kin are much interested in high data accuracy. We have also noted that the first and second digital divides, related to costs and relevance, persist, and they add up to the third one. The third digital divide is about to happen, with respect to data and ethics of the technologies, the need of the older adults or their next of kin to control and understand the device.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Paul C., Stamate A. and Spiru L. (2024). New Insights into the end-User Requirements for Remote Monitoring for Aging at Home Contributions to the Third Digital Divide. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE; ISBN 978-989-758-700-9, SciTePress, pages 291-297. DOI: 10.5220/0012730400003699

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ict4awe24,
author={Cosmina Paul and Andreea Stamate and Luiza Spiru},
title={New Insights into the end-User Requirements for Remote Monitoring for Aging at Home Contributions to the Third Digital Divide},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE},
year={2024},
pages={291-297},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012730400003699},
isbn={978-989-758-700-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE
TI - New Insights into the end-User Requirements for Remote Monitoring for Aging at Home Contributions to the Third Digital Divide
SN - 978-989-758-700-9
AU - Paul C.
AU - Stamate A.
AU - Spiru L.
PY - 2024
SP - 291
EP - 297
DO - 10.5220/0012730400003699
PB - SciTePress