Engelsk titel: New app can provide nutritional support for elderly living at home
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Författare:
Farsjö, Caroline
;
Moen, Anne
Email: caroline.farsjo@medisin.uio.no
Språk: Nor
Antal referenser: 31
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UI-nummer: 16083105
Sammanfattning
Background: Risk of malnutrition is a common problem among home-dwelling elderly, and we
have explored if an application on tablets offers new opportunities to prevent nutritional risk. We
developed APPETITT; a tablet application about nutrition, presenting dishes, enabling registration of
food choices and notifications about meal time.
Objective: To assess if the application was sufficiently adapted to the elderly inexperienced users of
technology, and if the application had potential to contribute to encouragement and orientation about
meals.
Method: We did a pilot study in spring 2014. Four elderly used APPETITT for four weeks. Data was
collected in a focus group interview and the informants demonstrated how they used APPETITT.
Results: The informants used APPETITT daily and considered it easy to use. Meal suggestions
presented as pictures inspired and influenced to some extent the informants’ meal choices. Two
informants found that reporting food choices could increase awareness, while two saw little need for
this function in the prototype. The pilot test revealed that notification of meals did not work as
anticipated; only one of them had paid attention to the notifications.
Conclusion: APPETITT can inspire to include variations in diet and contribute to increased awareness
about meals and nutrition. The application is suitable for novice technology users. In further
development of the application, opportunities for individualisation should be further supported.