Designing Telehealth for an Aging Population: A Human Factors Perspective (Human Factors & Aging)

Author: Neil Charness Brand: Charness Neil Demiris George Krupinski Elizabeth Edition: 1 Features: Designing Telehealth for an Aging Population A Human Factors Perspective ISBN: 1439825297 Number Of Pages: 111 Publisher: CRC Press Release Date: 2011-10-21 Details: As simple and straightforward as two health professionals conferring over the telephone or as complex and sophisticated as robotic surgery between facilities at different ends of the globe, telehealth is an increasingly frequent component in healthcare. A primer on the human factors issues that can influence how older adults interact with telehealth systems, Designing Telehealth for an Aging Population: A Human Factors Perspective examines the new ways patients and healthcare providers communicate to achieve the same or better outcomes than with traditional face-to-face healthcare. The authors examine older adult capabilities and provide standards and guidelines for telehealth design, enlivened by clinical examples and tuto