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Mobile e-HealthCan Mobile Digital Games Benefit Older Adults’ Health?

Mobile e-Health: Can Mobile Digital Games Benefit Older Adults’ Health? [Aging adults face many challenges, including declining physical and cognitive abilities, loss of companions and social support, family changes, loss of professional identity, changing lifestyles, and increasing likelihood of developing chronic and debilitating disease. Evidence suggests that digital games can improve older adults’ quality of life through improved physical, cognitive, and social health as well as general psychological wellbeing and emotional health. Benefits demonstrated in research studies have varied with game characteristics, study methodologies, and outcome measures, so generalising across studies is difficult, but our review highlights the potential for mobile digital games to improve older adults’ lives as they increasingly appear on common, accessible mobile devices.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Mobile e-HealthCan Mobile Digital Games Benefit Older Adults’ Health?

Part of the Human–Computer Interaction Series Book Series
Editors: Marston, Hannah R.; Freeman, Shannon; Musselwhite, Charles
Duplàa, Emmanuel; Kaufman, David; Sauvé, Louise; Renaud, Lise; Ireland, Alice
Mobile e-Health — Dec 2, 2017
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-60671-2
Pages
115 –146
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-60672-9_6
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Abstract

[Aging adults face many challenges, including declining physical and cognitive abilities, loss of companions and social support, family changes, loss of professional identity, changing lifestyles, and increasing likelihood of developing chronic and debilitating disease. Evidence suggests that digital games can improve older adults’ quality of life through improved physical, cognitive, and social health as well as general psychological wellbeing and emotional health. Benefits demonstrated in research studies have varied with game characteristics, study methodologies, and outcome measures, so generalising across studies is difficult, but our review highlights the potential for mobile digital games to improve older adults’ lives as they increasingly appear on common, accessible mobile devices.]

Published: Dec 2, 2017

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