Setting Direction for Advancing Digital Health Literacy Training Support to Optimize Older Adults’ Technology Use in Chronic Cardiovascular Disease Self-Care

British Columbia’s population is getting older. Many older adults are aging with chronic heart conditions. Digital tools, or programs and resources for use with different technologies, can help older adults look after themselves in living with their chronic heart condition(s), but many older adults need training and support to use them. This project will find out what older adults with chronic heart conditions need and prefer in the way of support and training. At the same time, the project will help find out what existing community digital literacy training programs for older adults currently offer, and what they think might be possible and workable for them in adding health technology support to their existing programs. The things we learn will be used to help support older adults with heart conditions to use digital technologies for self-care. Then we will put together all this information and have a meeting to discuss next steps. This project will allow us to build a strong team and gather direction for the best way forward. In particular, by talking directly with older adults with heart conditions and people who support them to use digital technologies, we can come up with ideas that are more likely to be meaningful for them.