Seniors OK With Online Healthcare

• Posted: Sunday, April 06, 2008
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• Author: pradhana
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• Filed under: Online Services

But caregivers worry whether their charges are ready.

Three-quarters of US consumers ages 65 and over are generally comfortable with telemedicine, telepharmacies and other online tools that extend doctors' reach. But more than 80% of seniors' caregivers still think it will be a struggle to get their charges used to the technology.

Those are the main findings of the American Association of Retired Persons' "Healthy@Home" study, conducted in December 2007 by Knowledge Networks.

More than 90% of responding seniors said they would support the use of telepharmacies to let doctors monitor their medications and send prescriptions to the pharmacy.

Nearly as many respondents said they would be willing to search for health information online. The findings agree with a BurstMedia study conducted last August.

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