Setting Direction for Advancing Digital Health Literacy Training Support to Optimize Older Adults’ Technology Use in Chronic Cardiovascular Disease Self-Care
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Year 2024
- Principal investigator Kathy Rush
- Co-lead(s) Linda Fawcus, Gluu Society
- Host institution University of British Columbia
- Research location University of British Columbia - Okanagan Campus
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Team members
- Linda Fawcus, Gluu Society
- Alex Lukey, University of British Columbia - Okanagan
- Jennifer Jakobi, University of British Columbia - Okanagan
- Peter Loewen, University of British Columbia
- Lana Moroz, AF Speciality Clinic, Vancouver General Hospital
- Wynne Chiu, Heart Failure and Transplantation Clinic, St. Paul's
- Jason Andrade, Atrial Fibrillation Clinic, Electrodiagnostics, and Cardiac Electrophysiology at Vancouver General Hospital and UBC Vancouver-Faculty of Medicine
- Brodie Sakakibara, University of British Columbia
- Kristen Hasse, University of British Columbia
- Eric Li, University of British Columbia
- Sheryl Sargent, Patient Partner
- Richard Nobles, Older Adult Partner
- Jennifer Murn, Older Adult Partner
British Columbia’s population is getting older. Many older adults are aging with chronic heart conditions. Digital tools, or programs and resources for use with different technologies, can help older adults look after themselves in living with their chronic heart condition(s), but many older adults need training and support to use them. This project will find out what older adults with chronic heart conditions need and prefer in the way of support and training. At the same time, the project will help find out what existing community digital literacy training programs for older adults currently offer, and what they think might be possible and workable for them in adding health technology support to their existing programs. The things we learn will be used to help support older adults with heart conditions to use digital technologies for self-care. Then we will put together all this information and have a meeting to discuss next steps. This project will allow us to build a strong team and gather direction for the best way forward. In particular, by talking directly with older adults with heart conditions and people who support them to use digital technologies, we can come up with ideas that are more likely to be meaningful for them.