New York City’s Department of Aging has teamed up with Microsoft to provide seniors who can’t leave their home with complimentary computers and video conferencing technology, so they could interact with older adults at the the Benjamin Rosenthal Senior Center in Queens. As Milton Greidinger, one of the six seniors in the program explains, “it took me out of the nearly dead group and put me in the alive group.”
Study Shows Computer Time Benefits Elderly
by James Alexander April 21, 2009Computer technology is creating a culture of “digital natives” — people who grew up using technology — and “digital immigrants” — people who started using technology later in life, according to Dr. Gary Small, a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences and director of the UCLA Center on Aging. Small, who published a book on [...]