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Digital literacy -- the required and moving target for older adults

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Digital literacy – what is it? The term “Digital literacy” has been defined by the American Library Association task force as " the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills."

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Broadband is the Achilles' heel of telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"We recently provided testimony before the Missouri legislature about the ties between digital equity and telehealth, how not having internet connections at the requisite speeds means you can't have telehealth", says McClain Bryant Macklin, director of policy and strategic initiatives at the Health Forward Foundation.

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Did you miss one? Check out September’s Aging & Health Tech blog posts

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Digital literacy – the required and moving target for older adults. Digital literacy – what is it? Yet for them, digital literacy is even more critical – when you consider how much useful information is available from or about our healthcare providers and related services. Welcome to iPad!

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PEW: 25% of seniors age 65+ are not online. That's a problem.

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Digital Literacy campaigns have previously focused on younger people. All ads would feature blaring messaging that “Operators are Standing By” – encouraging immediate responses to these digital literacy campaigns. category tags: Technology - AARP , computers, internet and social networking. Crazy, huh?

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My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Health Populi

” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. Remember that digital health literacy is a “super determinant of health.” and Seeing is Believing – Inside the World’s Biggest Hospital), among other themes.

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Study: NYC Black, Latino patients less likely than white patients to use telehealth during pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Disparities in digital access, digital literacy, and telehealth awareness, as well as issues of cost and coverage, and mistrust of digital appointments where physical examinations, labs and vitals cannot be taken are all potential barriers to telehealth," they continued.

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Five new technologies for older adults  October 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

That can be due to a variety of barriers, including fear that they are not using them properly (UCSD study) , lack of internet access (which would limit awareness), low technology literacy ( TechCrunch ), including lack of familiarity with terminology, and physical challenges ( research from MPDI ). Learn more at HandsFree Health.