Older adults’ experiences and perceptions of digital technology: (Dis)empowerment, wellbeing, and inclusion
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Highlights:
• Policy should account for barriers to digital technology use in older adults.
• Impacts of digital technology at the micro and macro levels relate to inclusion.
• Behaviours of digital technology use synthesise across societies and communities.
• Older adults use digital technology to facilitate and include themselves and others.
• Digital technology empowers and protects older adults from the digital divide.
摘要
•Policy should account for barriers to digital technology use in older adults.•Impacts of digital technology at the micro and macro levels relate to inclusion.•Behaviours of digital technology use synthesise across societies and communities.•Older adults use digital technology to facilitate and include themselves and others.•Digital technology empowers and protects older adults from the digital divide.
论文关键词:Social inclusion,Older adults,Digital divide,Digital by default,Civic participation
论文评审过程:Available online 21 February 2015.
论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.01.062