@inproceedings{d6cd8d4cd524451696e5c10b8a5fa879,
title = "This disease scares me!: Influences on adoption of mobile health applications by seniors",
abstract = "Healthcare systems are increasingly challenged due to the ramifications of the demographic change. Chronic diseases such as Alzheimer{\textquoteright}s disease cause cost in healthcare systems and can predominantly be found among older people. Information technology can act as one solution to release tension from the healthcare system by providing opportunity to monitor the personal well-being over time. This creates ways for early diagnoses and treatments to reduce the severe impact of chronic diseases. Mobile health applications are a prominent use case to monitor personal well-being. In this qualitative study we investigate factors influencing the adoption of mobile health applications among older people based on a self-developed prototype of a mobile health application. We find that older people have privacy concerns but also can lack facilitating conditions to use applications, such as the availability of WiFi. Surprisingly, perceived ease of use was not found to be very influential.",
keywords = "Elderly people, Health belief model, Mobile health application, Technology acceptance",
author = "Maximilian Haug and Tanja Schr{\"o}der and Heiko Gewald and Laura Burth",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-96293-7_14",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030962920",
series = "Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems",
publisher = "Springer, Springer Nature",
pages = "140--149",
editor = "{\'A}lvaro Rocha and Carlos Ferr{\'a}s and Porras, {Abel M{\'e}ndez} and Delgado, {Efren Jimenez}",
booktitle = "Information Technology and Systems",
address = "United States",
note = "International Conference on Information Technology and Systems, ICITS 2022 ; Conference date: 09-02-2022 Through 11-02-2022",
}