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Technological grandparents: how communication technologies can improve the well-being of the elderly?
The ageing of the population is one of the most significant social transformations that the twenty first century is showcasing and a challenge that impacts society at large. The elderly, inasmuch as everybody else, are confronted with continuous transformations that are induced by technology, althou...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10011758/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37358946 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01645-w |
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author | Corti, Laura Brizi, Maria Rosaria Pennacchini, Maddalena Bertolaso, Marta |
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description | The ageing of the population is one of the most significant social transformations that the twenty first century is showcasing and a challenge that impacts society at large. The elderly, inasmuch as everybody else, are confronted with continuous transformations that are induced by technology, although they seldom benefit from the opportunities that technology entails. The digital divide amongst various segments of the population is often age-related and due to different reasons, including biological, psychological, social and financial ones. There is an ongoing reflection pertaining to the factors that hinders the full adoption of ICTs by the elderly and a question regarding what can be done to overcome their poor involvement in technology. This article, based on the results of a recent research, which has been conducted in Italy, aims at highlighting the importance of engaging the elderly in the use of technology as a key to building bridges between generations. |
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spelling | pubmed-100117582023-03-14 Technological grandparents: how communication technologies can improve the well-being of the elderly? Corti, Laura Brizi, Maria Rosaria Pennacchini, Maddalena Bertolaso, Marta AI Soc Open Forum The ageing of the population is one of the most significant social transformations that the twenty first century is showcasing and a challenge that impacts society at large. The elderly, inasmuch as everybody else, are confronted with continuous transformations that are induced by technology, although they seldom benefit from the opportunities that technology entails. The digital divide amongst various segments of the population is often age-related and due to different reasons, including biological, psychological, social and financial ones. There is an ongoing reflection pertaining to the factors that hinders the full adoption of ICTs by the elderly and a question regarding what can be done to overcome their poor involvement in technology. This article, based on the results of a recent research, which has been conducted in Italy, aims at highlighting the importance of engaging the elderly in the use of technology as a key to building bridges between generations. Springer London 2023-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10011758/ /pubmed/37358946 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01645-w Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Open Forum Corti, Laura Brizi, Maria Rosaria Pennacchini, Maddalena Bertolaso, Marta Technological grandparents: how communication technologies can improve the well-being of the elderly? |
title | Technological grandparents: how communication technologies can improve the well-being of the elderly? |
title_full | Technological grandparents: how communication technologies can improve the well-being of the elderly? |
title_fullStr | Technological grandparents: how communication technologies can improve the well-being of the elderly? |
title_full_unstemmed | Technological grandparents: how communication technologies can improve the well-being of the elderly? |
title_short | Technological grandparents: how communication technologies can improve the well-being of the elderly? |
title_sort | technological grandparents: how communication technologies can improve the well-being of the elderly? |
topic | Open Forum |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10011758/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37358946 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01645-w |
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