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Older people are encountering digital exclusion due to the evolving technological realm. The use of digital financial services among older people aged 65 and over is low in comparison to other age groups. A wide range of challenges are associated ...

Speculative approaches to technology-enabled futures of ageing often struggle against reductive and immaterial imaginaries that diverge from everyday realities. This is compounded by the mainstream embrace of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools ...

This paper explores the extent to which ChatGPT can be used to combat visual ageism, i.e., “the social practice of visually underrepresenting older people or misrepresenting them in a prejudiced way” [1, p.164] on websites. First, insights from ...

Recent innovations in digital technology offer significant opportunities for older adults to engage in meaningful activities. To investigate older adults’ perceptions of using existing and emerging technologies for meaningful activities, we conducted ...

Research and development in the area of Ambient Assisted Living has been undertaken for many years. The aim of Ambient assisted Living is to manage the risks due to aging and living alone so that the older person can remain in their familiar home ...

This paper is aiming to present two studies investigating attitudes of older people towards different technologies to break their social isolation and investigating the impacts of Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) on physical and mental dimensions. The ...

The aging of the population throughout most of the world has led to a growing need for digital technologies that can support older people's in their daily lives and enhance their quality of life. Therefore, it is important to understand the current ...

The article aims to assess the long post-Covid-19 phase from the point of view of the relationship between seniors and ICTs, with an Italian focus. During the first phase of the pandemic (in some ways the most acute and dramatic, because of its ...

The role of the caregiver is essential in the management of older people’s care processes, provide unpaid care and assistance to aged family members and act as case managers. Despite this they are in a potentially dangerous situation for his or ...

Fake news is a threat to the trustworthiness of digital information sources. Media literacy training that can be used to empower people to fight fake news - understood to refer to any kind of misleading information that could mistakenly be ...

Information and communication technologies are being used for the social connection of people living in residential aged care. However, in HCI research concerning technology use in aged care, the perspectives of care and technology providers have ...

I argue that research on digital technologies for older people is largely failing to address two key issues: first, the lack of understanding and stereotypical views about older people by young researchers and developers; second, the tendency of ...

Restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected people's opportunities to engage in activities that are meaningful to their lives. In response to these constraints, many people, including older adults, turned to digital technologies as ...

Use of technology is a prerequisite to conduct a normal life and people recurrently use online financial services (i.e., any website which involve monetary transactions, for example, Internet banking, online shopping, transport service websites etc.) in ...

The goal of this paper is to analyze what features and content a mobile application (app) for foreign language learning, in this case, English, by cognitively unimpaired seniors should possess. The methodology was based on an online questionnaire ...

Restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic have limited opportunities for older people to participate in face-to-face organised social activities. Many organisations moved these activities online, but little is known about older adults' experiences ...

A variety of technologies are being developed to help older people live healthier, more independent, and safer lives, for longer. While many of these technologies are positively impacting the lives of older adults, they also have the potential to ...

Social networking sites (SNSs) might be important tools to contrast social exclusion in old age. However, the so-called gray digital divide (GDD) may undermine the potentialities of SNSs. Despite its relevance, there is very little research, which ...

The world community recognizes that the pandemic caused by the SARS-Cov-2 virus has consequences for the mental health of individuals and demands actions from all sectors of society to minimize the impacts. For older people the consequences are even ...

Falls are one of the major causes of accidental or unintentional injury death worldwide. Therefore, this paper proposes a reliable fall detection algorithm and a mobile cloud collaboration system for fall detection. The algorithm is an ensemble learning ...