Zhao M, Song S, Zhao Y. Health information seeking on social apps among older adults living with chronic conditions[J]. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2021, 58(1): 878-880.

Abstract: Older adults living with chronic conditions are assumed to have health information needs which further trigger their health information seeking behaviors. Recently, various social apps are increasingly becoming popular among older adults. However, it remains unclear how these older adults seek and evaluate health information in social apps and how the apps support these users’ health information behaviors. By conducting semi-structured interviews, we explore users’ health information seeking and evaluation behaviors on a popular social app WeChat among Chinese older adults living with chronic conditions.

Keywords: Older Adults; Health information behavior; Chronic condition; WeChat; Affordance lens