{"id":16080,"date":"2019-10-03T12:53:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T16:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=16080"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:16","slug":"virtual-medical-visits-get-wary-welcome-from-older-adults-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/03\/virtual-medical-visits-get-wary-welcome-from-older-adults-poll-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual medical visits get wary welcome from older adults, poll finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/telehealth-poll-2-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"woman on sofa looking at tablet device\" class=\"wp-image-16099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/telehealth-poll-2-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/telehealth-poll-2-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/telehealth-poll-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/telehealth-poll-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/telehealth-poll-2-665x374.jpg 665w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/telehealth-poll-2.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>(Michigan Medicine)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A&nbsp;new national poll&nbsp;carried out by the&nbsp;U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation&nbsp;with support from&nbsp;AARP&nbsp;and&nbsp;Michigan Medicine suggests that <a href=\"https:\/\/mmheadlines.org\/2019\/10\/virtual-medical-visits-get-wary-welcome-from-older-adults-poll-finds\/\">people over 50 aren\u2019t quite ready to fully embrace virtual health visits<\/a> with their doctors and other providers \u2014 also known as telehealth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only 4 percent of those polled had a video-based telehealth visit with a provider via smartphone or computer in the past year. Their reactions were mixed. Meanwhile, more than half of all those polled didn\u2019t know if their health providers offer&nbsp;telehealth visits&nbsp;at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, more than 80 percent of older adults polled expressed at least one concern about seeing a doctor or other provider virtually rather than in person. And 47 percent worried about getting the technology to work. But more than half said they\u2019d be willing to try telehealth in some situations, for instance if they got sick while traveling or needed follow-up on previous care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A&nbsp;new national poll&nbsp;carried out by the&nbsp;U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation&nbsp;with support from&nbsp;AARP&nbsp;and&nbsp;Michigan Medicine suggests that people over 50 aren\u2019t quite ready to fully embrace virtual health visits with their doctors and other providers \u2014 also known as telehealth. Only 4 percent of those polled had a video-based telehealth visit with a provider via smartphone or computer\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/03\/virtual-medical-visits-get-wary-welcome-from-older-adults-poll-finds\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[489,402,539],"class_list":["post-16080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-health-care","tag-michigan-medicine","tag-telehealth"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/telehealth-poll-2.jpg",850,478,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/telehealth-poll-2-200x112.jpg",200,112,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/telehealth-poll-2-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/telehealth-poll-2-768x432.jpg",665,374,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/telehealth-poll-2-700x394.jpg",600,338,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/telehealth-poll-2.jpg",850,478,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/telehealth-poll-2.jpg",850,478,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/telehealth-poll-2-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/telehealth-poll-2-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/telehealth-poll-2-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/telehealth-poll-2-665x374.jpg",665,374,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/telehealth-poll-2.jpg",400,225,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A&nbsp;new national poll&nbsp;carried out by the&nbsp;U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation&nbsp;with support from&nbsp;AARP&nbsp;and&nbsp;Michigan Medicine suggests that people over 50 aren\u2019t quite ready to fully embrace virtual health visits with their doctors and other providers \u2014 also known as telehealth. 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