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Older Adults and Computers. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Aug 2008, Pages: 224
The book focuses on older adult users of computer.
The group is noteworthy in today's society due to its
growing numbers and burgeoning economic strength.
Literature paints the senior citizens as computer
illiterates. However, the author believes that
demographic factors like users' age, income,
education, experience, gender, disability and
computer ownership status can considerably thwart or
alternatively, enhance older adults' possibilities to
bond with computers via the phenomenon of
computer-anxiety. The author states that limitations
inherent in computer systems' features, coupled with
physiological infirmities due to advancing age,
prevent the seniors from interacting with computers.
The author establishes that the presence or
alternatively absence of the above variables have the
potential of notching up or lowering computer-anxiety
levels among older computer users, thereby affecting
their possibilities of successfully working with
computers. The book also offers a comprehensive view
of almost all the factors known to positively or
negatively influence older users' interaction with
computers. This is a must read for researchers and
students studying gerontology.
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