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ArticleBMC geriatrics2016

How older adults with mild cognitive impairment relate to technology as part of present and future everyday life: a qualitative study.

Annicka Hedman, Eva Lindqvist, Louise Nygård

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Article in BMC geriatrics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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22 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Annicka HedmanDepartment of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society (NVS), Division of Occupational Therapy, Karolinska Institutet, Fack 23 200, SE-141 83, Huddinge, Sweden. annicka.hedman@ki.se.
Eva LindqvistDepartment of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society (NVS), Division of Occupational Therapy, Karolinska Institutet, Fack 23 200, SE-141 83, Huddinge, Sweden.
Louise NygårdDepartment of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society (NVS), Division of Occupational Therapy, Karolinska Institutet, Fack 23 200, SE-141 83, Huddinge, Sweden.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundExisting everyday technology as well as potential future technology may offer both challenges and possibilities in the everyday occupations of persons with cognitive decline. To meet their wishes and needs, the perspective of the persons themselves is an important starting point in intervention planning involving technology. The aim of this study was to explore how persons with mild cognitive impairment relate to technology as a part of and as potential support in everyday life - both present and future.

methodsQualitative in-depth interviews with six participants aged 61-86 were conducted and analyzed, using a grounded theory approach.

resultsThe findings describe the participants' different ways of relating to existing and potential future technology in everyday occupations as a continuum of downsizing, retaining, and updating. Multiple conditions in different combinations affected both their actions taken and assumptions made towards technology in this continuum. Both when downsizing doing and technology use to achieve simplicity in everyday life and when striving for or struggling with updating, trade-offs between desired and adverse outcomes were made, challenging take-off runs were endured, and negotiations of the price worth paying took place.

conclusionsOur findings suggest that persons with mild cognitive impairment may relate to technology in various ways to meet needs of downsized doing, but are reluctant to adopt video-based monitoring technology intended to support valued occupations. Feasibility testing of using already-incorporated everyday technologies such as smartphones and tablets as platforms for future technology support in everyday occupations is suggested.

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Attitude to ComputersInventionsActivities of Daily LivingAdaptation, PsychologicalAgedAged, 80 and overCognitive DysfunctionFemaleHumansInternetMaleMiddle AgedQualitative ResearchSwedenActivities of daily livingAging in placeGrounded theoryMild cognitive impairmentTechnology

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PMCPMC4815058

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