OK Cupid, Stop Bumbling around and Match Me Tinder: Using Dating Apps Across the Life Course

Social connectedness, sex, and intimacy are all factors associated with positive aging, facing individuals in society across the life course. Phenomenal technological developments in the 21st century have led to the increased use of smartphones, mobile apps, and dating apps for a myriad of services,...

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Autores principales: Marston, Hannah R., Niles-Yokum, Kelly, Earle, Sarah, Gomez, Barbara, Lee, David M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Aging and Technology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7418241/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32844104
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333721420947498
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description Social connectedness, sex, and intimacy are all factors associated with positive aging, facing individuals in society across the life course. Phenomenal technological developments in the 21st century have led to the increased use of smartphones, mobile apps, and dating apps for a myriad of services, and engagements. This paper focuses on two specific cohorts’ who have the opportunity to engage with dating apps, older adults and young citizens with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions, and highlights issues related to the intersection of technology, societal constructions of age, disability, and online dating.
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spelling pubmed-74182412020-08-24 OK Cupid, Stop Bumbling around and Match Me Tinder: Using Dating Apps Across the Life Course Marston, Hannah R. Niles-Yokum, Kelly Earle, Sarah Gomez, Barbara Lee, David M. Gerontol Geriatr Med Aging and Technology Social connectedness, sex, and intimacy are all factors associated with positive aging, facing individuals in society across the life course. Phenomenal technological developments in the 21st century have led to the increased use of smartphones, mobile apps, and dating apps for a myriad of services, and engagements. This paper focuses on two specific cohorts’ who have the opportunity to engage with dating apps, older adults and young citizens with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions, and highlights issues related to the intersection of technology, societal constructions of age, disability, and online dating. SAGE Publications 2020-08-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7418241/ /pubmed/32844104 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333721420947498 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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