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Existing Digital Health Technology Index Summary Report for Older Adults Living with Neurocognitive Disorders (Mild and Major) and Their Informal Caregivers: An Environmental Scan
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: Received: 13 April 2024 / Approved: 15 April 2024 / Online: 15 April 2024 (10:43:06 CEST)
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Jose, A.; Sasseville, M.; Gorus, E.; Giguère, A.; Bourbonnais, A.; Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi, S.; Balley, C.; Buyl, R.; Gagnon, M. Existing Digital Health Technology Index Summary Report for Older Adults Living with Neurocognitive Disorders (Mild and Major) and Their Informal Caregivers: An Environmental Scan. Preprints2024, 2024040948. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0948.v1
Jose, A.; Sasseville, M.; Gorus, E.; Giguère, A.; Bourbonnais, A.; Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi, S.; Balley, C.; Buyl, R.; Gagnon, M. Existing Digital Health Technology Index Summary Report for Older Adults Living with Neurocognitive Disorders (Mild and Major) and Their Informal Caregivers: An Environmental Scan. Preprints 2024, 2024040948. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0948.v1
Jose, A.; Sasseville, M.; Gorus, E.; Giguère, A.; Bourbonnais, A.; Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi, S.; Balley, C.; Buyl, R.; Gagnon, M. Existing Digital Health Technology Index Summary Report for Older Adults Living with Neurocognitive Disorders (Mild and Major) and Their Informal Caregivers: An Environmental Scan. Preprints2024, 2024040948. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0948.v1
APA Style
Jose, A., Sasseville, M., Gorus, E., Giguère, A., Bourbonnais, A., Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi, S., Balley, C., Buyl, R., & Gagnon, M. (2024). Existing Digital Health Technology Index Summary Report for Older Adults Living with Neurocognitive Disorders (Mild and Major) and Their Informal Caregivers: An Environmental Scan. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0948.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Jose, A., Ronald Buyl and Marie-Pierre Gagnon. 2024 "Existing Digital Health Technology Index Summary Report for Older Adults Living with Neurocognitive Disorders (Mild and Major) and Their Informal Caregivers: An Environmental Scan" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0948.v1
Abstract
Digital health has added numerous promising solutions to enhance the health and wellness of people with neurocognitive disorders (NCDs) and their informal caregivers: (1) Background: It is important to get a comprehensive view of currently available technologies, their outcomes, and conditions of success to inform recommendations regarding digital health solutions for people with NCDs and their caregivers. This environmental scan was performed to identify the features of existing digital health solutions relevant to the targeted population. This work reviews currently available digital health solutions and their related characteristics to develop a decision support tool for older adults living with mild or major neurocognitive disorders and their informal caregivers. This knowledge will inform the development of a decision support tool to assist older adults and their informal caregivers in their search for adequate digital health solutions according to their needs and preferences, based on trustable information.; (2) Methods: We conducted an environmental scan to identify digital health solutions from a systematic review and targeted searches in grey literature covering the regions of Canada and Europe. Technological tools were scanned based on a preformatted extraction grid. We assessed their relevance based on selected attributes and summarized findings; (3) Results: We identified 100 available digital health solutions. The majority (56%) were not specific to NCDs. Only 28% provided scientific evidence of their effectiveness. Remote patient care, movement tracking, and cognitive exercises were the most common purposes of digital health solutions. Most solutions were presented as decision aid tools, pill dispensers, apps, web, or a combination of these platforms. (4) Conclusions: This environmental scan allowed the identification of current digital health solutions for older adults with mild or major neurocognitive disorders and their informal caregivers. Findings from the environmental scan highlight the need for additional approaches to strengthen digital health interventions for the well-being of older adults with mild and major NCDs and their informal and formal healthcare providers.
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