Information Technology: Faculty Publications

Trends in Gerotechnology: A Literature Review

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

2018

Publication Title

Handbook of Research on Emerging Perspectives on Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics

DOI

10.4018/978-1-5225-5460-8.ch006

ISBN

9781522554615

ISSN

2328-126X

Abstract

A review of the literature highlights the ways in which information technology offers opportunities in long-term care, an area of research and application that might be called gerotechnology. The authors reviewed eight books about long-term care to find evidence of the possibilities for information technology. That led to the hypothesis that quality control, workflow, and telehealth are important topics for the gerotechnology journal literature. A query about gerotechnology was presented to PubMed, and patterns in that literature supported the hypothesis. A further experiment examined year-by-year trends over the last quarter century and highlighted the increasing importance of telehealth and monitoring in gerotechnology. The trends are consonant with the emergence of computer-assisted life flow as a future topic for gerotechnology.

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