Combating Barriers to the Development of a Patient-Oriented Frailty Website.
JMIR Aging
; 7: e53098, 2024 May 28.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-38807317
ABSTRACT
Unlabelled This viewpoint article, which represents the opinions of the authors, discusses the barriers to developing a patient-oriented frailty website and potential solutions. A patient-oriented frailty website is a health resource where community-dwelling older adults can navigate to and answer a series of health-related questions to receive a frailty score and health summary. This information could then be shared with health care professionals to help with the understanding of health status prior to acute illness, as well as to screen and identify older adult individuals for frailty. Our viewpoints were drawn from 2 discussion sessions that included caregivers and care providers, as well as community-dwelling older adults. We found that barriers to a patient-oriented frailty website include, but are not limited to, its inherent restrictiveness to frail persons, concerns over data privacy, time commitment worries, and the need for health and lifestyle resources in addition to an assessment summary. For each barrier, we discuss potential solutions and caveats to those solutions, including assistance from caregivers, hosting the website on a trusted source, reducing the number of health questions that need to be answered, and providing resources tailored to each users' responses, respectively. In addition to screening and identifying frail older adults, a patient-oriented frailty website will help promote healthy aging in nonfrail adults, encourage aging in place, support real-time monitoring, and enable personalized and preventative care.
Palavras-chave
ageing; aging; barrier; barriers; caregiver; caregivers; community dwelling; community-dwelling older adults; development; frailty; frailty website; health care professional; implementation; internet; internet security; monitoring; older adult; older adults; patient-oriented; patient-oriented assessment; privacy; real-time; technology; virtual health resource
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Idoso Fragilizado
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Internet
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Fragilidade
Limite:
Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
JMIR Aging
Ano de publicação:
2024
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Canadá