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Using e-health to support the challenges of an ageing population
Researchers at our have published a systematic review on based active ageing interventions.
As life expectancy is at an all-time high, this type of research has become an international priority offering enormous potential to support individuals, communities, clinicians and policy makers.
Our Professor of e-Health Innovation and Head of Research, Theo Arvanitis, Dr Timothy Robbins and Dr Sarah Lim Choi Keung, worked alongside experts at University Hospitals Coventry and 91¸£Àûshire to establish the extent to which current research literature considers e-health-based and telemedicine-based active ageing interventions.
The team reported a considerable breadth of both interventions and technologies, including a reassuring focus on community-based interventions. But whilst there are a number of quantitative studies, sample sizes are small, with a limited amount of statistical testing of the results.
This review also highlighted barriers to in-depth research including a lack of consensus as to preferred outcome measures, or indeed the most fruitful intervention strategies, paving the way for follow up work.
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