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Social Software & Senior Citizens | 10 comments
[new] simple interfaces etc. (Avg. Score: 3.00 / Raters: 1) (#7)
by SophiaRawlinson on Wed Oct 29th, 2003 at 01:01:11 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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With regards to "simpler, unified interfaces" and the popularity of the email list, the email phone seems to be an alternative offered to older adults, it is currently being introduced into UK residential care homes (there is an article on the BBC about this scheme here.)
I agree that there is an important issue of perception too. Many senior citizens I spoke to felt they did not need to be treated any differently from anyone else, and the idea that older people are not used to modern technologies is not necessarily true - as one person on the seniority.co.uk forum pointed out: "who invented them in the first place?"


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