Hannah Marston and Colleagues provide a detailed review of 12 research papers on how to improve older adults’ lives through the integration of technology into their daily lives.
- Marston, H. R., and Musselwhite, C. B. A. (2021). Improving Older Peoples Lives through Digital Technology and Practices. Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine.
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23337214211036255
These two research papers by Eleftheria Vaportzis and colleagues focus on the experiences of older adults learning to use tables and then in the second paper using and improving cognitive abilities.
- Vaportzis, E., Clausen, M. G., and Gow, A. J. (2018). Older Adults Experiences of Learning to Use Tablet Computers: A Mixed Methods Study. Frontiers in Psychology, 3. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01631
- Vaportzis, E., Martin, M., and Gow, A., (2017). A Tablet for Healthy Ageing: The effect of a Tablet Computer Training Intervention on Cognitive Abilities in Older Adults. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 25(8), 841–851. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2016.11.015
There have been several research studies which examined the impact of COVID-19 on older adult’s use of technology.
- Haase et al., (2021) focused on Technology and Socialization
- Haase, K. R., Cosco, T., Kervin, L., Riadi, I., and O’Connell, M. E. (2021). Older Adults’ Experiences with Using Technology for Socialization During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-sectional Survey Study. JMIR Aging, 4(2). doi: 10.2196/28010
- Savage et al., (2022) focused on the barriers to the adoption of social media and video communications.
- Savage, R. D., Nicolo, S. D., Wu, W., Li, J., Lawson, A., Grieve, J., Goel, V., and Rochon, P. A. (2022). The Factors associated with Nonuse of Social Media or Video Communications to Connect With Friends and Family During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Older Adults: Web-Based Survey Study. JMIR Aging 2022, 5, (2). DOI:10.2196/34793