Key result
Deployment of a context-aware prompting system to 11 older adults illustrated the possibilities and advantages of using past behavior and current context to improve medication adherence.
Why the study?
Does a context aware prompting system improve medication adherence in older adults?
Case Report (n=11)
Does a context aware prompting system improve medication adherence in older adults?
A context-aware prompting system may offer advantages over simple time-based alarms for improving medication adherence in older adults.
Hypothesis-generating for context-aware prompts in older adults; leaves open superiority over time-based reminders in trials.
Poor medication adherence is a serious medical problem, particularly in older adults. Various solutions have been developed to remind people to take their medications, but these systems are usually simple time-based alarm systems that are not particularly effective. We describe a system that is context aware, and that utilizes information about past patterns of behavior plus the current context to provide prompts at the appropriate time and place. A case study from our initial deployment of the system to eleven older adults illustrates the possibilities and advantages of context aware prompting systems.
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Lundell et al. (2007) conducted a case report in Poor medication adherence (n=11). Context aware prompting system was evaluated. Deployment of a context-aware prompting system to 11 older adults illustrated the possibilities and advantages of using past behavior and current context to improve medication adherence.
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