mHealth-Based Gamification Interventions to Promote Health Among Older Adults: Scoping Review
Xi Chen, Yishu Zhu, Dian Jiang, Jundan Huang, Qi Xie, Yishi Chen, Jing Chang, Weiping Huang, Hongting Ning, Hui Feng, Lorraine Buis · 2026
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Description
Health apps that play like games could keep elders moving, but no map of the field existed. Chen and co-authors chart that field in 2026, in a scoping review run by the book. Two charting frames and full report rules steer the search, so the net is cast wide and fair.
The aim is plain: list the phone-health plays tried on older adults, and note what each asks of its players. Past reviews had not taken a side on this tool; none had even drawn the map. The chart can show which game tricks get used, which health aims get served, and where the gaps gape. Planners of elder health drives gain a base map for their next build.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xi Chen, Yishu Zhu, Dian Jiang, Jundan Huang, Qi Xie, Yishi Chen, Jing Chang, Weiping Huang, Hongting Ning, Hui Feng, Lorraine Buis |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 53 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |