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ArticlePublic health reviews2024

Navigating Through Innovation in Elderly's Health: A Scoping Review of Digital Health Interventions.

Macarena Hirmas-Adauy, Carla Castillo-Laborde, Camila Awad, Anita Jasmen, Maurizio Mattoli, Xaviera Molina, Andrea Olea, Isabel Matute, Fernando Soto, Paola Rubilar and 4 more

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Article in Public health reviews, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Cognitive Reablement Using Digital Voice Assistants for People Living With Dementia or Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Co-Design Study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Macarena Hirmas-AdauyCentro de Epidemiología y Políticas de Salud, Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile.
Carla Castillo-LabordeCentro de Epidemiología y Políticas de Salud, Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile.
Camila AwadCentro de Epidemiología y Políticas de Salud, Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile.
Anita JasmenIndependent Research Consulting, Santiago, Chile.
Maurizio MattoliCentro de Informática Biomédica, Instituto de Ciencias e Innovación en Medicina, Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile.
Xaviera MolinaCentro de Epidemiología y Políticas de Salud, Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile.
Andrea OleaCentro de Epidemiología y Políticas de Salud, Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile.
Isabel MatuteCentro de Epidemiología y Políticas de Salud, Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile.
Fernando SotoIndependent Research Consulting, Santiago, Chile.
Paola RubilarCentro de Epidemiología y Políticas de Salud, Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile.
Oscar UrrejolaCentro de Epidemiología y Políticas de Salud, Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile.
Tania AlfaroCentro de Epidemiología y Políticas de Salud, Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile.
María Teresa Abusleme LamaUnidad de Salud Pública y Bioetica, Departamento de Formación Transversal en Salud, Facultad de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Central de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Sophie EsnoufCentro de Epidemiología y Políticas de Salud, Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objectives: Comprehensively map and summarize digital health initiatives for the elderly and caregivers. Methods: Scoping review between April and May 2022 based on Joanna Briggs methodology. Databases used included PubMed, Cochrane Library, CINAHL Plus, and Web of Science, along with grey literature and hand searches. Two reviewers independently conducted screening and eligibility phases, with a third resolving disagreements. Data were thematically analyzed. Results: The review included 421 documents. Most documents were published between 2013 and 2022, with a recent increase. Most studies, originating from high-income countries, focused on home applications and were mainly in the testing and validation stages. Telephones and computers were the predominant devices. Health objectives included monitoring, prevention, and treatment, with interventions utilizing directed communication and personal health monitoring for individuals, and telemedicine and decision support for healthcare providers. Conclusion: Increasing integration of technology in older adults' lives, along with their increasing proficiency, is driving a significant rise in digital health interventions. Despite this growth, further research in middle- and low-income countries, for caregivers and evaluating effectiveness and feasibility of these technological interventions is needed.

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caregiverdigital healthelderlyreviewstelemedicine

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PMID39749218
PMCPMC11693459

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