TY - GEN
T1 - Investigating older adults' social networks and coproduction activities for health
AU - Yuan, Chien Wen
AU - Kropczynski, Jessica
AU - Wirth, Richard
AU - Rosson, Mary Beth
AU - Carroll, John M.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank all the volunteers, publications support, staff, and authors who wrote and provided helpful comments on previous versions of this document. The authors also gratefully acknowledge grant support from NSF (IIS-1502176).
PY - 2017/5/23
Y1 - 2017/5/23
N2 - In this survey study, we extend previous research by investigating the influence of both whole network and individual ego networks on older adults' perceived wellbeing from the perspective of salutogenesis. We especially take interest in their coproduction engagement where people actively involve one another in doing different types of activities to maintain health. Participants included 173 older adults aged 60 or older from retirement communities and people who age-in-place. Using social network analysis, we found network characteristics like density, degree centrality, or diameter were not associated with older adults' coproduction engagement and psychological well-being. We further found that coproduction activities may be an important mediator because our CCRC and AiP participants had similar level of coproductions and psychological well-being. Based on the results, we suggest that technological designs should facilitate older adults' coproduction by supporting diversity, expanding coproduction networks, and having customizations for different community structures in order to promote smart and connected health.
AB - In this survey study, we extend previous research by investigating the influence of both whole network and individual ego networks on older adults' perceived wellbeing from the perspective of salutogenesis. We especially take interest in their coproduction engagement where people actively involve one another in doing different types of activities to maintain health. Participants included 173 older adults aged 60 or older from retirement communities and people who age-in-place. Using social network analysis, we found network characteristics like density, degree centrality, or diameter were not associated with older adults' coproduction engagement and psychological well-being. We further found that coproduction activities may be an important mediator because our CCRC and AiP participants had similar level of coproductions and psychological well-being. Based on the results, we suggest that technological designs should facilitate older adults' coproduction by supporting diversity, expanding coproduction networks, and having customizations for different community structures in order to promote smart and connected health.
KW - Coproduction
KW - Health
KW - Older adults
KW - Salutogenesis
KW - Social network analysis
KW - Social networks
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U2 - 10.1145/3154862.3154876
DO - 10.1145/3154862.3154876
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85055960549
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 68
EP - 77
BT - Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2017
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2017
Y2 - 23 May 2017 through 26 May 2017
ER -
