The Effectiveness of Assistive Technologies for Older Adults and the Influence of Frailty: Systematic Literature Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

Marina Liselotte Fotteler   ^{1, 2, 3, 4} , MSc ;   Viktoria Mühlbauer   ¹ , DPhil ;   Simone Brefka   ^{2, 3, 4} , MD ;   Sarah Mayer   ^{2, 4} , Dr biol hum ;   Brigitte Kohn   ^{2, 4} , BSc ;   Felix Holl   ^{1, 5, 6} , MSc ;   Walter Swoboda   ¹ , MD ;   Petra Gaugisch   ⁷ , Dipl Päd ;   Beate Risch   ⁷ , MSc ;   Michael Denkinger   ^{2, 3, 4 *} , MD ;   Dhayana Dallmeier   ^{2, 4, 8 *} , MD, PhD

¹ DigiHealth Institute, Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences, Neu-Ulm, Germany

² Research Unit on Ageing, Agaplesion Bethesda Clinic Ulm, Ulm, Germany

³ Institute for Geriatric Research, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

⁴ Geriatric Center Ulm/Alb-Donau, Ulm, Germany

⁵ Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany

⁶ Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁷ Fraunhofer-Institute for Industrial Engineering, Stuttgart, Germany

⁸ Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States

*these authors contributed equally