The Uneven Involvement of Older People in Digital Health Research: An Under-investigated Inequality Mechanism
Poli, A. · Das Gesundheitswesen · 2022 · Heft 8/09 · S. 1 bis 1
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Einleitung The involvement of older people in research on digital technologies is uneven. Some groups of older people, e. g. the older ones, are less likely to participate in research which evaluates new digital health technologies, compared to their counterparts. This is likely to bias research results and produce wrong research conclusions. By taking an inequality perspective, an in-depth investigation of the involvement of older people in research on digital health technologies and its impact on research conclusions will be presented. It will be discussed why the unequal involvement of older people in digital…