The Effect of Clinic Visit Audio Recordings for Self-management in Older Adults

Eligibility Criteria

• * Patients who are ≥ 65 years;
• * Patients with multimorbidity (i.e. patient has diabetes and one or more chronic conditions including: arthritis, asthma, atrial fibrillation, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease, depression, heart failure, hypertension, osteoporosis, kidney disease and stroke);
• * Have had two or more clinic visits in the previous 12 months;
• * Plan on receiving ongoing care at the clinic for the subsequent 12 months;
• * Do not have any vision or hearing problems that cannot be corrected;
• * Have not recorded a clinic visit for personal use i the past 6 months.
• * Without capacity to consent to the project;
• * With schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, substance-use disorders, uncorrectable hearing or visual impairment or a six item screener (SIS) cognitive function score ≤ 4;
• * Living in skilled nursing homes or hospice;
• * Patients who have audio- recorded a clinic visit for their personal use in the previous six months;
• * Patients who do not speak English or Spanish;
• * Patients who lack internet access;
• * Patients who (a) do not have access to a personal email, (b) do not have an email address shared with a family member or patient-identified caregiver, and (c) are not interested in creating an email account between the time they are first contacted by the study team to the time that the study team requires an email address to initiate the online recording software registration.