Older adults' health information behavior in everyday life settings |
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| Institution: | 1. College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity, University at Albany, 135 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12222, USA;2. Division of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, 725 Rose Street, 208H, Multidisciplinary Science Building, Lexington, KY 40536, USA;3. Department of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Avenue, N.E., Washington, DC 20064, USA |
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| Abstract: | Health information seeking is an important part of older adults' everyday lives as they cope with their health conditions. Semi-structured interviews conducted with 21 older adults in the United States were analyzed using Savolainen's everyday life information seeking (ELIS) model, especially its key concepts such as way of life and mastery of life. The interview data revealed that except for health care providers, a spouse or partner was mentioned as a credible interpersonal source of health information among older adults in a marital or romantic relationship. Characteristics of older adults' health information behavior in the ELIS context were identified based on types of way of life and mastery of life. For example, those who had more varied types of hobbies, including cognitive, affective, and social hobbies, were exposed to diverse people as they performed their daily routine, potentially resulting in different sources of useful health information. In couple relationships, those with an optimistic as opposed to pessimistic attitude toward a problem-solving situation played the information provider role rather than information receiver role. |
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