Open AccessTechnology Acceptance among Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairement
Author(s) -
Nita Rosa Damayanti,
Nazlena Mohamad Ali,
Ely Salwana Mat Surin
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1339/1/012022
Subject(s) - demographics , cognition , dementia , gerontology , population , psychology , population ageing , older people , medicine , demography , psychiatry , disease , environmental health , pathology , sociology
An increase in the population of older adults raises major and serious problems faced by developing countries, especially in the problem of decreasing memory function. With the increase in population of older adults, there is also an increase in the occurrence of a decline in memory which leads to the stage of diagnosis, namely a decrease in mild cognitive function called Mild Cognitive Impairment. However, technology use is among the population of older adults who should be able to help improve memory most of them do not know. This paper reports educating older adults about technology and technology acceptance in helping the memory of older adults. In-depth interviews were conducted with older adults to gather information about demographics, experiences, and their opinions about using technology to help memory. Thus, this study provides education about the technology in the reception of older adults to help memory. Respondents consisted of men aged 60-65 years and women aged 60-63 years were interviewed using a semi-structured interview method. The results of the study of all Older adults accept technology to help with cognitive function problems in preventing and reducing the risk of dementia, such as using technology is very helpful and not lazy to train the brain.