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SUMMARY:MICRA Webinar: The Role of Technologies for the Wellbeing of the 
 Older Population
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DESCRIPTION:In this MICRA webinar\, three cross faculty experts from UoM 
 discussed projects utilising technologies for the healthcare of the olde
 r population:\n\nHelen Hawley Hague presented on: The development\, usab
 ility and feasibility of smartphone apps to support falls rehabilitation
  amongst community dwelling older adults (Together trial): Falls rehabil
 itation can significantly reduce risk and rate of falls. However\, patie
 nts do not always carry out the required unsupervised home-exercise need
 ed for falls reduction during rehabilitation or maintain their exercises
 . We developed using co-design approaches smartphone apps to support reh
 abilitation\, evaluating their usability and acceptability and then cond
 ucted a feasibility RCT. The intervention and results will be discussed 
 alongside future plans.\n\nSyed Mustafa Ali presented on Engagement with
  consumer smartwatches for tracking symptoms. “Watch Your Steps” was a p
 rospective observational smartwatch study\, conducted by the University 
 of Manchester in partnership with Google Fit Research. This smartwatch f
 easibility study aimed to assess the completeness of data to determine i
 f it is feasible to collect data via consumer smartwatches. The study as
 ked people living with multiple long term conditions (multimorbidity) to
  complete multiple daily and weekly questions and active tasks over 90 d
 ays. We calculated daily completion rates per participant for 90 days an
 d summarised them across population by calculating interquartile range. 
 I will talk about participants engagement over time with help of visuali
 sation and will briefly touch up the symptom variations captured through
  daily input of symptom scores\, which can be useful for future research
 es\n\n\nRosy Boardman presented on her research into online shopping for
  older people: An increasing number of older users are now shopping onli
 ne and\, as a result\, the ‘digital divide’ is decreasing. However\, exi
 sting research is often based on younger users and student samples. Thus
 \, research needs to address whether older users behave differently to y
 ounger users when shopping online\, and whether current website designs 
 are excluding older users. This presentation explores the differences in
  behaviour of 50 online shoppers aged 20-70 on a fashion retailer’s webs
 ite.
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