Abstract: Globally, the recent advancement in the internet- of- things (loT), and smart home services in healthcare offered crucial advancement in elderly remote monitoring. This study widened the scope of UTAUT-unified theory of acceptance and use of technology framework, and make an addition of perceived trust as an external factor to the model. This scholarship examined the motivational factors behind the acceptance of IoT and smart- homes services /solution in African countries. Data was collected from April 2019 to June 2019, on a large scale from several countries of Africa. The valid response analyzed by using structural equation modelling. The finding of the study involves a significant effect used variables (i.e., social influence, effort expectancy, performance expectancy, and perceived trust) on elderly intention. More specifically, the insignificant positive relationship found among facilitating conditions and behavioural intention. This study assists the executives of IoT and smart- homes, healthcare services/solution providers, in building strategies, and the behaviour of the elderly towards the purchase of offerings. Also, this work offered the groundwork to investigate the process of acceptation of IoT and smart- home service s/solution s for healthcare by old age people.
Keywords: smart- homes services, healthcare services, internet- of- things (loT).
Title: Effects of Smart Homes and the Internet–of–Things on Elderly Healthcare: an empirical study in the context of Africa
Author: Samuel David Acquah Gyamerah, Baozhen Dai
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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