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November 22, 2025BMC GeriatricsOpen Access

Acceptance of telemedicine among care personnel in inpatient and outpatient elderly care: a systematic review

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BABirthe AufenbergJOJulia OffermannSPSophie Pauge

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Overview

Systematic review reveals motivators and barriers to telemedicine acceptance in elderly care staff, suggesting key facilitators to improve service delivery.

Key Points

  • The review aims to assess care personnel's acceptance of telemedicine in elderly care and identify motivators and barriers influencing this acceptance.
  • Conducted an electronic search in MEDLINE, PsycInfo, and Embase
  • Applied predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria for article selection
  • Extracted study characteristics and relevant results
  • Assessed methodological quality using the Quality Assessment with Diverse Studies tool
  • Positive attitudes towards telemedicine among care personnel in elderly care were highlighted
  • Identified motivators and barriers related to technology, organization, and personal factors
  • More motivators than barriers were noted across included studies
  • Demographic characteristics appear to influence acceptance of telemedicine

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Aufenberg et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6924e3ddc0ce034ddc34e82dhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-025-06786-9
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