Abstract Health information seeking is an important part of older adults' everyday lives as they cope with their health conditions. Semi-structured interviews conducted with 21 older adults in the United States were analyzed using Savolainen's everyday life information seeking (ELIS) model, especially its key concepts such as way of life and mastery of life. The interview data revealed that except for health care providers, a spouse or partner was mentioned as a credible interpersonal source of health information among older adults in a marital or romantic relationship. Characteristics of older adults' health information behavior in the ELIS context were identified based on types of way of life and mastery of life. For example, those who had more varied types of hobbies, including cognitive, affective, and social hobbies, were exposed to diverse people as they performed their daily routine, potentially resulting in different sources of useful health information. In couple relationships, those with an optimistic as opposed to pessimistic attitude toward a problem-solving situation played the information provider role rather than information receiver role.

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老年人在日常生活中的健康信息行为

摘要 寻求健康信息是老年人应对健康状况的重要组成部分。使用 Savolainen 的日常生活信息搜索 (ELIS) 模型对美国 21 名老年人进行的半结构化访谈进行了分析，特别是其生活方式和生活掌握等关键概念。访谈数据显示，除了医疗保健提供者之外，配偶或伴侣被认为是处于婚姻或恋爱关系的老年人中可靠的人际健康信息来源。根据生活方式和对生活的掌握程度，确定了 ELIS 环境中老年人健康信息行为的特征。例如，那些有更多不同类型爱好的人，包括认知、情感和社交爱好，他们在日常生活中接触到不同的人，可能会导致有用的健康信息的不同来源。在夫妻关系中，对解决问题持乐观态度而不是悲观态度的人扮演信息提供者的角色，而不是信息接收者的角色。