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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2723
igaa057.2723
Abstracts
Session 7055 (Symposium)
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Hey Google, Remind Me to Write in My Diary: Voice Assistants for Daily Pain Monitoring
Shade Marcia 1 Hama Rasila Soumana 1 Rector Kyle 2 Kupzyk Kevin 1 1 
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States
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University of Iowa, Iowa city, Iowa, United States
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”755 755
© 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
Diaries can be important tools to document and communicate pain symptoms. Diary-based assessments can be prone to poor adherence and limitations with biased recall. One strategy to help adherence is to use voice assistant reminders. A sample of 15 community dwelling aging adults used the Google Assistant for reminders to complete pain self-management tasks. One task was a reminder created to write daily in a pain diary. Within the diary, participants could document a change in pain, pain severity, average and worst amount of pain, and pain relief. At follow-up, it was noted that participants adhered to writing most pain characteristics in the diaries, but there were times that each question was not answered. Participant’s pain characteristics varied, which could be a helpful assessment to communicate to health providers for pain management. This feasibility study is preliminary support that voice assistants may help with the daily pain diary completion.