Digital Tools to Support Healthcare Decision Making

Summary

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.

Interventions

• Project 3, Phase 2: Clinical Trial · BEHAVIORAL

  A digital support tool (adapted for this study for Medicare) with a diverse sample of adults age 60+ with and without a cognitive impairment.

Published eligibility criteria

Verbatim from the registry. Only the site can decide how these apply to a specific patient.

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.g., severe tremors or debilitating arthritis in the hands),
* TICS-m \<22.
* All Phase 1 study participants (interview and observational study): have you ever participated in a study that interviewed you about your experience with Medicare or asked you to search for Medicare information?

Sites (3)

• Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida · WITHDRAWN
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois · RECRUITING
• Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York · RECRUITING