Category:
User Experience
Net4Age Ontology Terms:
acceptance
, aging
, comfort
, technology
, usability
Description:
The paper discusses the challenges faced by healthcare and welfare systems due to the increasing number of older adults. It aims to explore how knowledge can contribute to the development of age-friendly cities and communities.
Overview:
This initiative delves into the significance of social connectedness for older adults within age-friendly communities, with a focus on the local geographical context. It explores the role of technology in enhancing local connections and presents findings from interviews with 22 older adults. The research reveals concerns and negative perceptions regarding local relationships and technology's impact on them. The initiative underscores the need for careful consideration of technology's role in fostering social connections within communities and introduces an amended definition of age-friendly communities. It also suggests potential areas for future work in developing digitally connected age-friendly communities.
Objectives:
It aims to understand how older adults use and perceive technology in their social lives, identify issues related to local relationships and connections, and uncover potential improvements in local connections.
Initiatives:
The initiative takes an innovative approach by combining insights from older adults' perceptions of technology and their ideas for improving local connections. It recognizes that technology should not merely serve as an interface between people but should be integrated into the community fabric thoughtfully.
Shortcomings:
The findings are based on interviews with a relatively small sample of 22 older adults, which may limit the generalizability of the results to broader populations.
Relevance:
3
Relevance Description:
Relevance to NET4Age concerns the acceptance and usability of new technologies by older adults
Quality:
3
Opinion:
Although an interesting article, the results are based on interviews with a relatively small sample of 22 older adults, which may limit the generalizability of the results to larger populations.
Recommended:
No
Overlap:
No
Overlap Detail:
Sources:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32751898
Keywords:
age-friendliness; ageing; community; connectedness; digital technology; isolation; later life; loneliness; older people; social relationships
Submitted By:
Ismail Kirbas
Email:
oscarzanutto@gmail.com