McKnight’s Senior Living October 20, 2023
As wearable and sensors provide more and more data on physical health routines, it raises the question of how much senior care clinicians or caregivers should rely on technology to guide residents’ care management.
Thankfully, new study results show that data insights often dovetail, rather than clash with, more traditional methods, such as questionnaires or even personalized prescriptions, of diagnosing physical health. Researchers looked at how fitness trackers add or complement the work of caregivers and when problems from tech adoption may arise. Study results recently appeared in JAMA.
“These new data present many exciting opportunities to fill knowledge gaps that can inform future guidelines,” the study authors wrote. “However, clinicians may view the onslaught of new information from wearables...
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