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A Literature Review on Information Systems Supporting the Physical Wellbeing of Elderly People
This paper reviews multi-disciplinary research on information systems
supporting the physical wellbeing of the elderly population. By taking a
systematic approach, it screens journals, conference proceedings and books on
how computer-based systems are used for improving both the health and wellbeing
of the most senior individuals. By using different Internet-databases indexing
academic publications and a set of conceptual keywords the authors searched for
and identified 62 major publications on the topic that were carefully reviewed.
Each publication item was classified according different category sets and the
aggregated data was then analyzed from different socio-technological
perspectives. Our findings suggest that research on the topic is very focused
on diseases over health and wellbeing, since most of the studied information
systems focused much more on the protective and curative medical procedures
over other important dimensions such as prevention, education and health
promotion. An overview on what and where the studied systems are used is
presented and a new information systems research agenda is proposed.Comment: As presented in the IADIS ICT2012 conference held in Lisbon,
Portugal, 21-23 July 2012, Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference
ICT, Society and Human Beings 2012, IADIS press, 201