Opinion: Local efforts to increase digital literacy among older adults are underway — but we can help close the gap by being more empathetic.
is many things: a satire of the self-care movement and dubious behavioral sciences research; a send-up of gentrification and helicopter parenting; and a trenchant exploration of how childhood trauma can repeat itself in adult relationships, specifically in the beleaguered marriage of Jack and Elizabeth Baker, the book’s central characters.
That lack likely arises from multiple causes, they theorize, including the fact that many American seniors, unlike younger people, didn’t grow up using computers, and the technology itself — with its smaller text and confusing, tech-heavy jargon — is not senior-friendly.A lack of facility online also opens up older Americans to scammers and other bad actors in cyberspace.
“Think of it as three legs of a stool,” said Darryl Greer, Southeastern Regional program manager with Older Adults Technology Services from AARP that offers a slew of local tech programs to seniors. OATS, which throughout the year collaborates with the city, UTSA, local nonprofits, churches and “anywhere older folks congregate” has a special focus on older people who live in communities of color, Greer said, where barriers to digital access are especially dire., both Zoom-based and in person, all conducted by specially trained leaders well-versed in using senior-friendly, everyday language to talk about technology.
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