Weill Medical College of Cornell University
The goal for this project is to support the cognitive components of older adults' health-management activities through development of digital assistant technology tools tailored to three exemplar healthcare management task activities: accessing support services, managing healthcare finances, and using the health-management tools provided by Medicare.gov. This project will leverage the machine-intelligence expertise of our collaborators and our experience in developing and evaluating technologies for supporting the health and wellbeing needs of older adults to harness technology to provide cognitive support to aging adults, including those with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and lower SES.
The overarching goal of the project is to enable diverse older adults, including those of lower SES or with cognitive impairments (e.g., MCI), to achieve their health goals by supporting the cognitive components of health-management activities, through development of digital assistant technology tools. Tool development will be guided by an understanding of the preferences, needs, and cognitive capabilities and limitations of older adults. Each of the CREATE sites will lead efforts. CREATE resources will be used to maximal potential through utilization of the machine learning and artificial int…
Inclusion Criteria: * Some internet proficiency is required; participants will need to answer Yes to the following: * Can you use the Internet to access a website, for example, amazon.com? * Can you use search engines like Google to search for information on the Internet? * English speaking. * 6th grade literacy. * Aged 60 or older. * TICS-m with a score between 22-37 for MCI and \>37 for normal. * Able to read from a newspaper. Exclusion Criteria: * blindness * deafness (inability to engage in telephone screening due to hearing difficulties) * terminal illness * severe motor impairments (e…
A digital support tool (adapted for this study for Medicare) with a diverse sample of adults age 60+ with and without a cognitive impairment.