Anticipating ageing: Older adults reading their medical records

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Highlights:

• Older adults, who are still active in working life but approaching retirement, differ from other age groups by their health information behaviour.

• Older adults are the least confident and least motivated to use online health information.

• Difficulties in understanding and accepting health information do not necessarily apply to medical records, i.e. health information about oneself.

• The results do not indicate an obvious linear relationship between age and motivation to use online health information.

• Personal health information management is a central aspect of health information behaviour.

摘要

•Older adults, who are still active in working life but approaching retirement, differ from other age groups by their health information behaviour.•Older adults are the least confident and least motivated to use online health information.•Difficulties in understanding and accepting health information do not necessarily apply to medical records, i.e. health information about oneself.•The results do not indicate an obvious linear relationship between age and motivation to use online health information.•Personal health information management is a central aspect of health information behaviour.

论文关键词:Health information behaviour,Medical records,Older adults,Health information,Personal information management

论文评审过程:Received 14 September 2017, Revised 29 October 2017, Accepted 11 January 2018, Available online 4 February 2018, Version of Record 4 February 2018.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2018.01.007