Abstract
The more we as mHealth researchers get involved in dissemination, the more important it becomes to engage the community in that activity not only during needs assessment, solution development, and testing, but also to position that research for later dissemination. Community-based participatory research is desperately needed to maximize the impact of innovations.
The number of adults age 65 and older in the US was 45 million in 2013 and will approach 100 million by 2060. The cost of institutional care for older adults was estimated to be $134 billion in 2011, which is 1.3% of gross domestic product, a cost expected to rise—because of the aging population—to between 1.9 and 3.3% of gross domestic product by 2050, barring innovations that extend the length of time that older adults can live on their own. The mission of our Active Aging Research Center is to develop, test, and disseminate mHealth technologies that lengthen the time that older adults can live independently.
Our Center used Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) to learn about the assets and challenges of older adults in their communities, with the explicit goal of building a technology that used those assets to address community challenges and lay the groundwork for dissemination of the technology. This chapter describes ABCD as we used it and reports on what we learned from and about using ABCD in a community-based research project, lessons that may benefit other researchers who are developing community-based mHealth technologies.
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This work is supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Grant P50 H5019917 and the National Institute on Drug Abuse Grant R01 DA034279-01.
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Gustafson, D.H. et al. (2017). The Use of Asset-Based Community Development in a Research Project Aimed at Developing mHealth Technologies for Older Adults. In: Rehg, J., Murphy, S., Kumar, S. (eds) Mobile Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51394-2_5
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