Artificial Intelligence for Older Adult Health: Opportunities for Advancing Gerontological Nursing Practice

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an emerging technological trend that encompasses a range of advanced computational techniques, mainly machine learning and natural language processing (NLP). These techniques can be applied to health care datasets in many ways to try to improve the prediction of patient, health service, and other outcomes, which can be used to inform clinical decision making and care delivery (O'Connor et al., 2022). These predictive algorithms have many applications in the physical and virtual world, such as clinical decision support systems, robotics, remote monitoring systems, mobile applications, wearable devices, virtual reality, and gaming technologies. Hence, AI is starting to be used to support the care of older adults, which presents a new opportunity for gerontological nursing practice.