CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 223Technology Use by Older AdultsAging, Health, and DisabilityAging and Gerontology Research

Functional limitations to daily living tasks in the aged: a focus group analysis

Rogers, Wendy A., Meyer, Beth, Walker, Neff, Fisk, Arthur D.·1998·Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
DOI 10.1518/001872098779480613
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

We assessed constraints on daily living of 59 healthy, active adults 65-88 years of age in focus group interviews. Individual comments about specific problems were coded along the dimensions of (a) the locus of the problem (motor, visual, auditory, cognitive, external, or health limitations); (b) the activity involved (e.g., transportation, leisure, housekeeping); (c) whether the problem was attributable to task difficulty or the perception of risk; and (d) response to limitations (perseverance, cessation, compensation, or self-improvement). The data provide information about the types of difficulties encountered in everyday activities as well as the way in which individuals respond to such difficulties. Each comment was also coded in terms of whether it was remediable via training, design changes, or some combination of the two. More than half of the problems that were reported had the potential to be improved in some way, thus providing direction for future research in human factors and aging. Actual or potential applications of this research include identifying problems and difficulties that older adults encounter in daily activities such as transportation and leisure; more specifically, determining the degree to which such problems are potentially remediable by human factors solutions. Applications of this research also include understanding the types of systems, products, and technologies that older adults interact with currently, or are interested in learning to use.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1518/001872098779480613

Cites

32 of 32 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Older users tend to be more critical judges of usability than younger ones.

    “However, in general, older users tend to be more critical judges of usability than younger ones (Stephens et al., 2006).”

    From Reducing working memory load in spoken dialogue systems (2009) · cites this paper as Rogers et al., 1998

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Related

Authors
Rogers, W. A., Meyer, B., Walker, N., & Fisk, A. D.
Affiliations
  • University of Georgia (US)
  • Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
ORCID
Rogers, Wendy A.
Venue
Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1998-03
Volume
40
Issue
1
Pages
111-125
ISSN
  • 0018-7208 (ISSN-L)
  • 1547-8181
DOI
10.1518/001872098779480613
OpenAlex
W2010881674
Cited by
223
References
32
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 16 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 11
FWCI
27.57
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute on Aging (P50AG11715, P50AG011715)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Technology Use by Older Adults
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Aging, Health, and Disability
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
Keywords
older adults, activities of daily living, functional limitations, aging, transportation, leisure, housekeeping, task difficulty, risk perception, compensatory strategies, design changes, assistive technology
MeSH terms
Activities of Daily Living, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Female, Humans, Ergonomics, Male, Geriatric Assessment, Observer Variation, Focus Groups

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review