[PDF] Measuring Senior Technology Acceptance: Development of a Brief, 14-Item Scale. | Semantic Scholar (2025)

The results show that the TAM is a useful model to explain the intention of older adults to use Digital Technology, showing a high predictive power, highlighting Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use as the main predictor variables.

The findings support the possibility of using semAPP in older patients, as well as the importance of designing and evaluating new technological tools, considering not only the general population but also the specific target ones.

It was showed that physical activity and technology acceptance were associated with frailty, and technology acceptance moderated the association of physical activity with frailty.

It is found that research on technology acceptance with regard to SARs is still in the developmental stages, and further studies of assessment tools for SARs are required.

A questionnaire to assess the smartphone proficiency of older adults in China and found higher scores were associated with lower age, longer daily use duration, more years of use, higher monthly income, and higher education level, validating the questionnaire.

There was a significant difference in the adoption intention of gerontechnology in Chinese community-dwelling older adults based on their sociodemographic and psychographic characteristics, and a conceptual model of influencing factors, namely, predictive, enabling, and need factors, was constructed.

Overall, participants found the smartwatch easy to use and were likely to continue using the device in a long-term study, and data generated from smartwatches have the potential to engage individuals about their health and could inspire them to participate more actively during clinical encounters.

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By encompassing conventional technology acceptance constructs together with age-related health and ability characteristics, the present study was able to identify more factors affecting gerontechnology acceptance by older Hong Kong Chinese.

Regression analyses suggest that perceived ease of use may actually be a causal antecdent to perceived usefulness, as opposed to a parallel, direct determinant of system usage.

The Brief- APQ (B-APQ) is a concise, multi-dimensional measure of ageing perceptions, which is psychometrically valid for use with the Irish population aged 50+.

Neither of the two approaches was universally superior with regard to cultural, structural and known-group validity but the results support the usability of the Rasch method for developing new HRQoL measures for children and adolescents.

Factors that influence older adults’ decisions about the adoption of new technology are examined, indicating that various stakeholders in technology adoption among older adults must be cognizant of a technology’s functionality and complexity as well as the characteristics and abilities of older adults.

It is suggested that those who employ the TAM measures should continue using the original (grouped)format in order to best predict and explain user acceptance of information technology.

Regression analyses showed that the associations of the CPSS-SF subscales with pain intensity, pain disability, depressive symptoms, instrumental activities of daily living, and physical and mental health-related quality of life, were indistinguishable from their full-version counterparts.

A comparison of item-reduction approaches suggested that the retention of clinically sensible and important content produced a comparable, if not slightly better, instrument than did more statistically driven approaches.

Investigation of the relationship between an older individual's self-reported health and the perceived usefulness of computers in assisting with health-related tasks indicates that adoption of health-supporting technologies could be facilitated by user-centered designs that better accommodate older adults in poor health.

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