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Silver Surfers - Your Gran Online?
The chap from the Switch offices above Refresh was telling us about how his 94 year old granddad from Australia sent his wishes via webcam on Christmas morning. Hearing him lovingly relaying the details led down a trail of thought to difference the Internet could make to the lives of our beloved senior citizens. As expected I have the viewpoint of a twenty something year old boy and it takes a serious step back for me to see how they view the Internet but the potential benefits for an elderly person are just numerous.
Without a doubt, the main obstacle in the way of the majority of older people gaining access to the Internet is a working computer knowledge. Unfortunately getting on to the Internet requires the use of a PC, but in a generation that wasn't bought up around computers this can pose a problem. Fortunately there are a number of courses designed specifically for this user demographic - these are usually very cheap to attend and the advice is friendly and unintimidating.
Assuming that this one obstacle can be overcome, the primary use of the Internet for most elderly people will almost certainly be communications. I'm not speaking from personal experience but I imagine that it would be very easy for an elderly person to become fairly isolated; I've known of people in their seventies, eighties and nineties who don't see anybody for days, or even weeks, on end.
Being online lets our silver surfers create their own Skype accounts for free, enabling them to hold audio or video conversations with both their acquaintances and relations that may live far away. Like with James' grandparents, communication with family with both audio and video was possible with her whole family in Devon many, many miles away for as long as she liked without it costing her a penny; without the Internet this just wouldn't be achievable. I would say most people that buy a webcam in one of our shops could be considered elderly and I think it's great that a little £10 gadget affect someone's life so much.
Websites like Friends Reunited help older folk get re-acquainted with friends that they may have fallen out of touch with many years before and gives another way of communicating with the outside world. In a recent study 35% of silver surfers said that the Net had given them a bigger group of friends since they retired. Obviously, e-mail is a great tool for communicating and keeping contact this way is a great deal faster and generally simpler than penning a letter.
The net is an amazing source of entertainment to help keep the brain active in retirement. Websites like Wikipedia give a never ending stream of information; together with several billion other sites this wealth of information truly is priceless. Additionally, the survey I mentioned earlier stated 42% of older users became more tolerant of changes in society as a direct result of exposure to the internet.
If you suffer from mobility issues then online shopping can relieve the burden of having to go in to town or out to a large supermarket to get the weekly shop. Those that rely on someone getting their shopping for them may also like the independence and freedom to choose exactly what they want and get it delivered the same day.
The words computer and OAP are not found in the same sentence particularly often but the possible improvements that the net can give in to the lives of our elders is well worth the effort of overcoming the technical challenges.
It's a relatively long way off yet but I do hope that in retirement I'll be able to consider myself a 'silver surfer'.
About the Author
Chris Holgate writes a weekly article of all things tech related. He is a director and copyrighter of the online computer consumables business Refresh Cartridges who sell cheap ink cartridges,
toner cartridges
, computer hardware and other computer consumables online. An archive of his work can be found at
www.computerarticles.co.uk
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