Mobile applications for elderly healthcare: A systematic mapping.
Joseane O V PaivaRossana M C AndradePedro Almir M de OliveiraPaulo DuarteIsmayle S SantosAline L de P EvangelistaRebecca Lucena TheophiloLuiz Odorico M de AndradeIvana Cristina de Holanda Cunha BarretoPublished in: PloS one (2020)
Regarding the WHO classification, we noticed that two categories were more frequently found, Clients and Data Services, and that none of the mobile apps were classified in the Health System Manager category. The data extraction result also reveals that most of the applications found in the literature focused on the independent elderly. Moreover, we observed that most of the studies were proposals of solutions for elderly health and the validation process of these solutions generally consisted of controlled experiments and usability evaluations. At last, the research focused on mobile applications for elderly healthcare has been performed mostly by developed countries.