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September 9, 2020The Swedish technology company Doro is dedicated to helping older adults live safely and with dignity at home, a mission that has been especially critical as COVID-19 accelerates the need for remote care options. In 2008, Doro launched Care IP®, the world’s...
Indeed, health systems worldwide continue to grapple with three seemingly intransigent problems preventing this achievement, (1) inequity of access to health care resources due to residential location, ability to pay, as well as social and cultural factors; (2) uneven distribution of quality h...
However, as research tends to underrepresent people who are more than 80, most studies on the older population focus on adults over 65 years old. Arguing that the population of people aged 80 and older is the fastest growing segment in the United States, Sims said "it's critical that we ...
Jordan sees it as his responsibility to help older generations learn how to connect remotely with their friends and family. "It's really up to our generation who know everything about technology and who [have] really been born into it to help the seniors who missed this entire technology boo...
Let’s face it: As we enter our later years, we get set in our ways. Embracing something new can be challenging, and this is especially true with technology. Older adults often experience high levels of frustration with new technologies and are unsure of their ability to make it a part ...
Older Adults License Yellow Abstract The purpose of this study is to explore the attitudes older Chinese adults have about engaging in counseling-based services as measured by a fear of intimacy with helping professionals scale. Data were collected from 150 older adults living in Chongqing, China....
Facebook has launched an app that allows kids under 13 to message with other users their parents approve. Facebook still requires members to be 13 and older. The new app, called Messenger Kids, allows users under the age of 13 to send texts, videos and photos; they can draw on the pic...
prefer to design products for younger people. The cost of technology can also be prohibitive for older adults. Still, there has certainly been progress as older adults are more likely in recent years to have Wi-Fi and adopted new interfaces such as FaceTime in order to communicate with ...
virtualisation efforts of non-profit organisations. Not all interested stakeholders of non-profit organisations (e.g., minorities, abused individuals, financially vulnerable adults) possess the capabilities and access to the technology needed to use many of the digital technologies available (Apostolidis...