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Climate change and the health of older people in Australia
— a scoping review on the role of mobile applications (apps) in ameliorating impact | | Author(s) | Deborah A Black, Kate O'Loughlin, Leigh A Wilson |
| Journal title | Australasian Journal on Ageing, vol 37, no 2, June 2018 |
| Publisher | Wiley, June 2018 |
| Pages | pp 99-106 |
| Source | http://www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ajag |
| Keywords | Physical environment ; Weather conditions ; Health [elderly] ; Chronic illness ; Evaluation ; Assistive technology ; Telephone ; Information technology ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Due to the impact of climate change, mobile applications (apps) providing information about the external environment have the potential to improve the health of older people. The purpose of this research was to undertake a scoping review of the evidence on the usability, feasibility and effectiveness of mobile apps to encourage access to activities outside the home in older people. A search of databases was undertaken with relevant keywords. Selected manuscripts were judged for relevance to the inclusion criteria and assessed for quality. Very few published studies examined mobile apps specifically designed to prevent, or to treat, chronic disease in ageing populations, and fewer had rigorous designs. No study addressed accessing the external environment in the context of climate change. This study demonstrates that there is a gap in the evidence about mobile apps designed for healthy ageing and, more specifically, to improve access to the external environment. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180629200 A |
| Classmark | R: R4: CC: CI: 4C: M: UJ: UVB: 7YA |
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