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This backs up findings from a similar US-based survey, which stated that only 35-percent of seniors are online. The combination of no Internet and no cell phone seems particularly sad, as those are two of the most pervasive and important technologies out there today. It's a bit worrisome that most seniors are missing out on both, since no only are they unable to access a huge amount of information, but they're also missing out on the cell phone's potentially life saving abilities in an emergency -- not to mention that all the hookups. [Source: The Earth Times]
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Subscribe to commentsMadMikeAug 11th 2008 3:02PM
My Grandfather is 82 years old. He not only owns 2 computers (one laptop and one desktop). He upgrades PC's every year. He also has a cellphone a digital camera/camcorder and a Navigation system in his car.
Of course he used to teach Fortran at a college and worked at Bell Labs when they were developing Unix.
Paula RedslobAug 11th 2008 3:37PM
I am a 73 year old widow and I have a Desktop computer, and my own website which I built myself, and keep up to date myself. I also have a laptop computer. I also have a cellphone which I use exclusively (no land line at all).
Who did they ask ...... certainly not me!!!!
Paula RedslobAug 11th 2008 3:39PM
I am a 73 year old widow and I have a Desktop computer, and my own
website which I built myself, and keep up to date myself. I also
have a laptop computer. I also have a cellphone which I use
exclusively (no land line at all).
Who did they ask ...... certainly not me!!!!
hall monitorAug 11th 2008 6:42PM
Good! This will keep them out of trouble in Texas. Some schools are banning cell phones within a several mile radius of them, with up to a $500 fine! I found the story on http://detentionslip.org.
geomcdAug 11th 2008 8:33PM
I'm 74 1/2. I had my first computer in 1982 and have had a cell phone for 12 years. Most of my friends my age also have these. I agree with the person who wonders what people are asked about these. Maybe they go to nursing homes????????????
Berkeley BabeAug 12th 2008 1:49AM
I am 62 and I have 2 computers, two cell phones, one for business use and one for personal use, a digital camera, 4 landline phones, 3 TVS one in the rec room, one in my home office, one in my bedroom, high speed internet.
I don't know who they interviewed either.
One thing I do wish, is that now that I am using all this, I don't take enough time to ACTUALLY talk to people anymore.
I am always answering emails, IMS, text messages, doing all this with CNN on in the background or CSpan.
Miss TALKING to people.
The other point is maybe many senior citizens cannot afford all this. Many are on a fixed income, and a computer takes some type of connection fee monthly, and so does a cell phone.
Don't underestimate how much of a fixed income, pension, people live on, and costs for everything have jumped.
A lot of us like our independence, but I do find that I have gained weight, now that I am on the computer so much for work and personal.
Who does these studies anyway. They must be including much older people who are not of the same generation as baby boomers.
maureen hallettAug 12th 2008 6:25AM
my mom is 85 she has both a cell phone and a computer but rarely uses either one of them....first of all my family keeps buying her used computers that break down on her so that doesn;t help and second of all I think she could use one of those cell phones called the "
jitterbug" then she might use it more since they are simpler,but the research is plain and simple whether you are a senior and use these tools or not matters not...the majority still are not
Robert AlexanderAug 12th 2008 7:05AM
If you have visited a nursing home recently, you know why one group of seniors do not have cell phones and computers. Assisted living facilities are only slightly better served. What percentage of seniors are accounted for in this way? Then there are those resistant to change of any kind. That group just wants to go back to the good old days. They are content to live the same way they always did without realizing just how impossible that is today. I am a senior citizen and have two computers. Since 1980 I have been active in the PC world and before that I prepared numbers for the Univac back in 1957. Some seniors would be lost without their computers.