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The effect of age on the use of health and self-care information
— confronting the stereotype | | Author(s) | Lisa Smith Wagner, Todd H Wagner |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 43, no 3, June 2003 |
| Pages | pp 318-324 |
| Keywords | Health services ; Information services ; Usage [services] ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors find convincing evidence to counter the stereotype that older people are resistant to trying new health information technologies. Their study used quasi-experimental survey data from the Healthwise Communities Project (HCP) in Boise, Idaho. People were asked about their use of medical reference books, telephone advice nurses, or computers for health information in the past few months. 5,907 surveys were completed. The data showed that older people were no less likely (and were sometimes more likely) to use health information as a result of the intervention than younger adults. For telephone advice nurses and computers, the effect of the intervention was not significantly different for the different age groups. Yet, compared with those aged 18-29, those aged 65+ had a 17 percentage point increase in using a self-care book. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030723205 A |
| Classmark | L: UV: QLD: TOB: 3F: 7T |
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