Barriers to learning a new technology to go online among older adults during the COVID‐19 pandemic
Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has highlighted the importance of using information and communication technology (ICT) to address daily and healthcare needs. The barriers for older adults in the United States to learn a new technology to go online during the pandemic rema...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) 2021-11, Vol.69 (11), p.3051-3057 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Background
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has highlighted the importance of using information and communication technology (ICT) to address daily and healthcare needs. The barriers for older adults in the United States to learn a new technology to go online during the pandemic remain to be studied.
Methods
Using data from the 2019–2020 National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS), a nationally representative survey of older Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years and older in the United States, we used multivariable logistic regression models to identify sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with learning a new technology to go online during the COVID‐19 pandemic.
Results
Our sample represented 23,547,688 older adults nationally, of which the majority (60.2%) increased ICT use during the COVID‐19 pandemic. However, most older adults (71.8%) did not report learning a new technology to go online. Those who did not learn a new technology to go online had less of an increase in ICT use than those who learned either with help or by themselves (50.7% vs. 78.4% or 89.2% respectively, p |
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ISSN: | 0002-8614 1532-5415 |
DOI: | 10.1111/jgs.17433 |