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  • September 10, 2009
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  • Media Literacy Audit: Report on media literacy amongst older people | Ofcom
    Ofcom report from 2006
    (tags: ageing technology TSA09)
  • Connecting older people to the world | Technology | The Guardian
    There are now more pensioners than children under 16. However, the word "pensioner" is still a bit of a turnoff for the youth-centric marketing and advertising industries and so, to a lesser extent, is "silver surfers" or even "older people". But call the same people "baby boomers", and suddenly we change from a no-go area to a huge marketing opportunity
    (tags: TSA09 technology ageing)
  • The question: Do older people really struggle with technology?
    Researchers at Heriot-Watt and Strathclyde universities claim that physiological degeneration in the connections between cells in the frontal lobe means that older people are allegedly flummoxed by new-fangled things such as taps that you pull rather than twist.
    (tags: TSA09 technology ageing)
  • Age is no barrier to technology use: ThePost.ie
    More truisms…
    (tags: TSA09 ageing technology)
  • BBC NEWS | Technology | Technology 'baffles old and poor'
    (tags: TSA09 ageing technology)
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