==== Front Innov Aging Innov Aging innovateage Innovation in Aging 2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 10.1093/geroni/igaa057.3408 igaa057.3408 Abstracts Session 10390 (Late Breaking Poster) Technology AcademicSubjects/SOC02600 Usability of Telemedicine in Relation to Acceptability, Psychosocial Impact, and Future Use Prevodnik Katja Hvalič-Touzery Simona Dolničar Vesna Škafar Maja Petrovčič Andraž University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2020 16 12 2020 16 12 2020 4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”929 929 © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract This poster presents the results of an intervention study exploring how engagement in telemedicine at home affects chronic patients’ perceptions of usability and acceptability of the employed equipment, perceptions of its psychosocial impact, and intention of future use in the context of population aging. A purposively selected sample of 103 patients (mean age: 58 years) with chronic conditions (diabetes and/or hypertension) recruited in a community health center in Slovenia tested a home telemedicine system (TMS). After three months of utilization, an assessment of the relative importance of the usability and acceptance of TMS as factors influencing the patients’ self-reported psychosocial perception of TMS and intention of future use was performed based on a proposed structural equation model explaining these interdependencies. The results confirmed four of eight tested hypotheses. Notably, the intensity of TMS use was found to affect the evaluation of its usability, the perception of its psychosocial impact, and the intent of future use. Usability was found to be the main factor directly influencing acceptability, perception of psychosocial impact and intent for future use, whereas acceptability did not significantly affect either the perception of the psychosocial impact of TMS or the intent of future use.