<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Older adults experience difficulties in their daily lives as their health deteriorates. Gerontechnology (the compilation of terms “gerontology” and “technology”) helps in the resolution of problems faced by older adults by improving their quality of life and, above all, developing tools to facilitate the access of older adults to all goods, services and infrastructure, which is also the understanding of the term used in this paper. The article mainly aimed to assess the selected gerontechnology that improved the quality of life of older adults in terms of different criteria, namely, innovation, demand, socioethics, usability, and functionality. It also analysed whether the respondent's age and gender had any influence on the assessment. Care robots were chosen from among the variety of gerontechnologies. The survey was conducted in the first quarter of 2018 and involved 643 people from different voivodships of Poland. Two types of questionnaires were designed. The electronic form of the survey was distributed using social media and snowball techniques, and the paper form was sent by traditional post to all nursing homes in Poland.</p></abstract>

Older adults experience difficulties in their daily lives as their health deteriorates. Gerontechnology (the compilation of terms “gerontology” and “technology”) helps in the resolution of problems faced by older adults by improving their quality of life and, above all, developing tools to facilitate the access of older adults to all goods, services and infrastructure, which is also the understanding of the term used in this paper. The article mainly aimed to assess the selected gerontechnology that improved the quality of life of older adults in terms of different criteria, namely, innovation, demand, socioethics, usability, and functionality. It also analysed whether the respondent's age and gender had any influence on the assessment. Care robots were chosen from among the variety of gerontechnologies. The survey was conducted in the first quarter of 2018 and involved 643 people from different voivodships of Poland. Two types of questionnaires were designed. The electronic form of the survey was distributed using social media and snowball techniques, and the paper form was sent by traditional post to all nursing homes in Poland.

Gerontechnology — the assessment of one selected technology improving the quality of life of older adults

Engineering Management in Production and Services

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Older adults experience difficulties in their daily lives as their health deteriorates. Gerontechnology (the compilation of terms “gerontology” and...

Acronym	Statistics of the Mann‒Whitney U test		Statistics of the ANOVA Kruskal‒Wallis test
Acronym	U	p	T	p
D1	47108.00	0.162578633	11.18819	0.0108
D2	48041.00	0.319672595	12.73677	0.0052
D3	49822.50	0.818997074	4.385920	0.2227
D4	49117.50	0.594667432	3.812452	0.2824
D5	49203.50	0.620534872	7.994963	0.0461
D6	44379.50	0.0101674892	3.775917	0.2867
D7	44966.00	0.0204598559	19.69931	0.0002

Acronym	Statistics of the Mann‒Whitney U test		Statistics of the ANOVA Kruskal‒Wallis test
Acronym	U	p	T	p
S1	47890.5	0.289205106	7.925149	0.0476
S2	45829.5	0.051608717	9.091852	0.0281
S3	45462.00	0.035338459	11.10373	0.0112
S4	48663.5	0.467000255	2.767013	0.4290
S5	50338.5	0.994508795	2.094907	0.5529

Gerontechnology — the assessment of one selected technology improving the quality of life of older adults

Publié en ligne: 30 juil. 2019

Pages: 43 - 51

Reçu: 10 déc. 2018

Accepté: 30 mai 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/emj-2019-0010

© 2019 Katarzyna Halicka published by Sciendo

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Values of statistics for technology assessment of personal care robots for older adults in terms of demand

Values of statistics for the technology assessment of personal care robots for older adults in terms of socio-ethical aspects