Abstract—In Europe people lives in an increasingly ageing
society and there are different technological solutions that help
them in their self management. Elderly population has been
growing from 264 million in 2009 to 416 million in 2050 (UN
Population Division/DESA). We believe that developing easy to
use mobile functions can be of great use to the elderly as they
grow older. The focus of this study is to investigate what
functionalities the diabetes type 2 patients require in future
mobile phones. The study is based on interviews with health
care professionals and survey with elderly type 2. Interviews
carried out with those health care professional who are dealing
with type 2 patients and understand the problems which type 2
patients facing in the use mobile phones. The second part is
survey, we distributed questionnaire to type 2 elderly although
they use mobile phone or not but majorly we focused those
elderly who are already users of mobile phones. The results of
questionnaire will find out the satisfaction of elder persons with
their current mobile phones and also reasons of from those who
are not users of mobile phone. Questionnaire’s results will
better explain the functionalities thatneeds to rebuild.
Index Terms—Ageing, diabetes type 2, elderly, mobile
communication technologies.
The authors were with Blekinge Institute of Technology, SE- 37179
Karlskrona, Sweden (e-mail: farrukhsahar@yahoo.com, tosif@live.com).
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Cite:F. Sahar and S. T. Raza, "An Investigation on Mobile Communication Technologies
and Their Effects on Elderly," International Journal of Engineering and Technology vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 336-340, 2013.
