The impact of numeracy ability and technology skills on older adults' performance of health management tasks using a patient portal

Journal of Applied Gerontology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 416-436

  Taha, Jessica ^a   Sharit, Joseph ^a   Czaja, Sara J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

objective numeracy ability; patient portals; self management of health; simulation methods; subjective numeracy ability

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; DEVICES; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MENTAL CAPACITY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; COMPUTER LITERACY; COMPUTER USER TRAINING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84899698615     PISSN: 07334648     EISSN: 15524523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0733464812447283     Document Type: Article

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