Using active information and communication technology for elderly homecare services: A scoping review

Abstract

Nowadays, as life expectancy grows, the healthcare industry faces growing challenges related to corresponding increases in chronic diseases. Home care services (HCS) are the solution to this growing problem. It’s a general premise that information and communication technology (ICT) can address these health issues and enhances HCS. The scope of our study was the active managerial and supervisory roles of these technologies within HCS. The study aimed to extract, accumulate, and classify the challenges of using active ICT for elderly HCS. We employed the keywords, their synonyms, and their combinations into the searching areas of title, keywords, and abstract. More than 300 resources were collected, and found those 33 articles of those 33 articles were eligible for our study. Later, a team of experts provided their opinions on our gatherings, which were collected individually. According to the expert team’s opinions, researchers classified challenges into; technology, human factors, and management.