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Elderly patients' reactions to gamification-based digital therapeutics (DTx): The relevance of socialization tendency seeking

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  • Sestino, Andrea
  • D'Angelo, Alfredo

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The acceptance of new technologies by elderly individuals has been long debated in literature, showing barriers in their adoption. However, recent technology features such as gamification have been promising a great deal of impact on their intention to use new technology-based solutions. Particularly in the healthcare sector, gamification has been suggested to increase elderly individuals' intention to use digital therapeutics. However, in the attempt to incentivize the adoption of these new technological innovations, the importance of socialization has been advanced as a further reinforcement mechanism by improving the social interactions of elderly patients thanks to the connections with young or expert people. In this paper, we aim to investigate whether the use of gamification affects elderly patients' intention to use new digital therapeutics (DTx) trying to shed lights on the importance of socialization as a winning strategy to boost their adoption. Through an explorative research design, we conducted a study among a selected group of 168 elderly participants. Our findings reveal that these patients' perceived ease of use gamification-based digital therapeutics positively affects their intention to use, via the perceived usefulness of such new technological features. More importantly, we find that this effect increases in magnitude as elderly patients' socialization tendency seeking increases, revealing the importance of socialization-oriented strategies in stimulating elderly's positive reactions to technological tools. This results in a higher willingness to adopt new digital healthcare therapeutics. Implications for both theory and practices emerge from this research.

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  • Sestino, Andrea & D'Angelo, Alfredo, 2024. "Elderly patients' reactions to gamification-based digital therapeutics (DTx): The relevance of socialization tendency seeking," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 205(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:tefoso:v:205:y:2024:i:c:s0040162524003226
    DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123526
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