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Mobile Health Devices for Aging Population Groups: A Review Study

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Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWIS 2016)

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At present the demographic changes cause a gradual, but permanent growth of older generation groups. This trend of aging results in serious problems such as incidence of aging diseases, social and economic burden. Therefore there is considerable effort to maintain this population group active and healthy as long as possible. One of the ways of doing this is the exploitation of the so-called mobile health devices which can provide people with information on their health, reminders for scheduled visits, medication instructions, or consulting a doctor at a distance. The purpose of this review study is to explore mobile health devices which are effectively used by older people for the enhancement or maintenance of their state of health. In addition, the author of this review study lists the main benefits and limitations of mobile health devices for older people. The methods used for the discussion of this topic include a method of literature search, a method of comparison and evaluation of the selected sources.

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This review study is supported by SPEV project No. 2103, Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic.

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    Blanka Klimova

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  1. Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom

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  2. University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom

    Irfan Awan

  3. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Natalia Kryvinska

  4. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Christine Strauss

  5. Telenor R&D, Fornebu, Norway

    Do van Thanh

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Klimova, B. (2016). Mobile Health Devices for Aging Population Groups: A Review Study. In: Younas, M., Awan, I., Kryvinska, N., Strauss, C., Thanh, D. (eds) Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems. MobiWIS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9847. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44215-0_24

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