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| Author, year, country | Sample/age | Study design | Objectives/research question | Finding |
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| [55] United States | Older people | Mixed-methods study | To (a) describe the development of a website housing asynchronous and accessible telehealth education modules (TEMs) targeting the needs of older adults, and (b) evaluate the extent to which TEMs improve self-perceived telehealth competency for older adults | Role of telemedicine |
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| [56] United States | Older veterans with traumatic brain injury | Mixed-methods pilot study | To adapt goal-oriented attentional self-regulation (GOALS) for delivery to older Veterans via in-home video telehealth (IVT) and evaluate feasibility and participant-rated acceptability of the telehealth GOALS intervention (TeleGOALS) | Role of telemedicine |
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| [57] India | Older people | Qualitative study | To address India’s digital divide, emphasizing marginalized groups, and shift focus to internet use outcomes, contributing to a disadvantage-charting operational framework | Role of telemedicine |
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| [58] Singapore | Older people | Qualitative study | To investigate HSB and the associated technology use among the older population, ultimately proposing implications for practice to address their unmet health needs | Role of telemedicine |
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| [59] United States | Older people | Qualitative study | To better understand wearable activity monitor (WAM) use and its relationship with physical activity (PA) among older adults | Wearable health technology |
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| [60] Republic of Korea | Older people | Cross-sectional survey | To investigate the acceptability of digital health wearable technology in health care by the Korean older adults and their attitude toward the use of smart health watches by using an extended technology acceptance model while considering the context of the COVID-19 pandemic | Wearable health technology |
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| [61] United States | Aged 65 years and older | Longitudinal cohort
study | To examine the trends in and factors associated with digital health technology use among older
adults with cancer | Wearable health technology |
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| [62] Singapore | Older people | Qualitative study | To explore the adoption of mobile and wearable technology in the physical activity of older adults | Wearable health technology |
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| [63] United States | Older people | Longitudinal study | To investigate the safety of IV-tPA in elderly patients with occult trauma | Precision medicine and and personalized care |
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| [64] Italy | Older patients (aged ≥ 65 years) | Retrospective study | To evaluate and compare the safety and efficacy of guselkumab, risankizumab, and tildrakizumab in real-world practice in elderly patients | New treatment methods |
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| [65] Australia | Aged 70 years and older | Randomized controlled trial | To evaluate whether comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) can improve health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in older people with cancer who are starting systemic anticancer treatment | New treatment methods |
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| [66] Australia | Aged ≥ 60 years | Randomized, crossover Trial | To assess the efficacy and safety of closed-loop insulin delivery compared with sensor-augmented pump therapy among older adults with Type 1 diabetes | New treatment methods |
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| [67] Portugal | Older people | Qualitative descriptive study | To explore older adults’ perceived barriers to participation in a fall prevention strategy | Preventative care strategies |
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| [68] Canada | Older people | Randomized clinical trial | To assess the effect of a home-based exercise program as a fall prevention strategy in older adults who were referred to a fall prevention clinic after an index fall | Preventative care strategies |
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| [69] United Kingdom | 65–99-year-old adults | Cross-sectional study | To draw attention to the nature and pattern of recent global and regional prevalence estimates and projections of diabetes in older adults (65–99 years) and to describe the societal health implications of these changes on a global scale | Preventative care strategies |
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| [70] Netherlands | Older people | Qualitative study | To assess current collaboration and communication in nutritional care of malnourished older adults across health-care settings and provides recommendations for improvement | Preventative care strategies |
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| [5] Spain | 65 and 87 years of age | Descriptive and correlational study design | To determine the differences in autonomy in both basic activities of daily life in instrumental activities of daily life, as well as functional capacity, fragility, and risk of falls between an active group and a sedentary group | Improvement in living conditions |
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| [71] United States | Older people | Qualitative study | To discuss how the expanded Andersen model may be adapted to present constructs that reflect the actual use of services by long-term services and supports (LTSS) type when considering a racially and ethnically diverse group of older adults | Improvement in living conditions |
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| [1] Mexico | 60 years and older | Cross-sectional study | To explore characteristics associated with low perception of autonomy among community-dwelling older adults | Improvement in living conditions |
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| [72] United States | Older people | Qualitative study | To explore the barriers and facilitators of transportation among diverse older adults | Improvement in living conditions |
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| [73] United States | Older people | Explanatory sequential mixed-methods study | To determine how social networks influence therapeutic self-care behaviors and health among community dwelling older people living with multiple long-term conditions | Improvement in living conditions |
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| [74] Taiwan | Older people | Cross-sectional study | To investigate the comfort levels and factors that contributed to comfort among older people living in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) | Improvement in living conditions |
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| [75] Turkey | Aged 65 years and older | Cross-sectional study | To examine the relationship between quality of life, satisfaction with life and multidimensional perceived social support in people aged 65 years and older | Role of social support and community |
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| [76] United States | Aged 57–85 years | Longitudinal mediation analysis | To distinguish the pathways through which social disconnectedness (e.g., small social network, infrequent social interaction) and perceptions of social isolation (e.g., loneliness, perceived lack of support) contribute to anxiety and depression symptom severity in community-residing older adults aged 57–85 years at baseline | Role of social support and community |
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| [77] Turkey and United States | Older people | Correlational study | To identify the social–psychological barriers to public support for legal initiatives aimed to secure a healthy and productive future for older people | Government policies favoring health care for older people |
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| [78] Nepali | Older people | Cross-sectional study | To evaluate factors associated with health care utilization (HCU) and to assess vertical and horizontal equity in utilization among Nepali older adults | Government policies favoring health care for older people |
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| [79] China | Older people | Cross-sectional study | To investigate the travel characteristics and influential factors of travel mode choice for health care activity by the elderly in core area and suburb | Government policies favoring health care for older people |
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| [80] China | Older people | Quasinatural experiment | To explore the association between digital health care service reform (DHSR) and health inequity (HI) for older individuals to augment comprehension of DHSR implementation | Government policies favoring health care for older people |
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| [81] Switzerland | Older people | Discrete choice experiment design | To identify attributes reflecting features of health care delivery in Switzerland relevant to chronic patients and the general population aged 50+ that are actionable and realistic for policy implementation | Government policies favoring health care for older people |
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| [82] China | Aged 60 and above | Cross-sectional study | To assess the present inequality and horizontal inequity for health service use among the elderly in China and to identify the main determinants associated with the disparity | Government policies favoring health care for older people |
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| [83] France | Aged 80 years or more living at home | Cross-sectional study | To assess health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in French community-dwelling people aged 80 years and over and to investigate the sociodemographic and health characteristics and life events associated with HRQoL | Global initiatives and programs |
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| [84] United States | Older people | Cross-sectional study | To identify the most salient themes concerning the use of medical and recreational cannabis by older adults living in Colorado | Global initiatives and programs |
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| [85] United States | Older people | Two cross-sectional studies | To examine sex differences in the cross-sectional association between Aβ and regional tau deposition as measured with positron emission tomography (PET) | Global initiatives and programs |
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| [44] United Kingdom | Aged ≥ 55 years | Cross-sectional study | To analyze inequalities in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and five determinants of health in older adults across all ethnic groups in England | Global initiatives and programs |
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