Trends in Gerotechnology: A Literature Review

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Author(s): Roy Rada (University of Maryland – Baltimore County, USA), Jie Du (Grand Valley State University, USA)and Hayden Wimmer (Georgia Southern University, USA)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 18
Source title: Handbook of Research on Emerging Perspectives on Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Joseph Tan (McMaster University, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5460-8.ch006

Keywords: Health Information Systems / Healthcare Administration / Medical Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

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Abstract

A review of the literature highlights the ways in which information technology offers opportunities in long-term care, an area of research and application that might be called gerotechnology. The authors reviewed eight books about long-term care to find evidence of the possibilities for information technology. That led to the hypothesis that quality control, workflow, and telehealth are important topics for the gerotechnology journal literature. A query about gerotechnology was presented to PubMed, and patterns in that literature supported the hypothesis. A further experiment examined year-by-year trends over the last quarter century and highlighted the increasing importance of telehealth and monitoring in gerotechnology. The trends are consonant with the emergence of computer-assisted life flow as a future topic for gerotechnology.

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