Mobile health and cardiac rehabilitation in older adults

With the ubiquity of mobile devices, the availability of mobile health (mHealth) applications for cardiovascular disease (CVD) has markedly increased in recent years. Older adults represent a population with a high CVD burden and therefore have the potential to benefit considerably from intervention...

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Published in:Clinical cardiology (Mahwah, N.J.) Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 118 - 126
Main Authors: Bostrom, John, Sweeney, Greg, Whiteson, Jonathan, Dodson, John A.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York Wiley Periodicals, Inc 01.02.2020
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
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ISSN:0160-9289, 1932-8737, 1932-8737
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Summary:With the ubiquity of mobile devices, the availability of mobile health (mHealth) applications for cardiovascular disease (CVD) has markedly increased in recent years. Older adults represent a population with a high CVD burden and therefore have the potential to benefit considerably from interventions that utilize mHealth. Traditional facility‐based cardiac rehabilitation represents one intervention that is currently underutilized for CVD patients and, because of the unique barriers that older adults face, represents an attractive target for mHealth interventions. Despite potential barriers to mHealth adoption in older populations, there is also evidence that older patients may be willing to adopt these technologies. In this review, we highlight the potential for mHealth uptake for older adults with CVD, with a particular focus on mHealth cardiac rehabilitation (mHealth‐CR) and evidence being generated in this field.
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National Institute on Aging, Grant/Award Numbers: K23‐AG052463, R01‐AG062520
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Funding information National Institute on Aging, Grant/Award Numbers: K23‐AG052463, R01‐AG062520
ISSN:0160-9289
1932-8737
1932-8737
DOI:10.1002/clc.23306