Living Well High Tech part of the High Tech – High Touch equation of care could be a reality for older adults. Paula Span wrote on The New York Times “…Older adults hit a digital milestone last year: For the first time since the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project began conducting surveys, a majority (53 percent) of people over age 65 used the Internet. The proportion has since inched upward, to 54 percent.
Which certainly represents progress. When Pew first began tracking Internet use in 2000, only 13 percent of seniors were online. But it remains a fairly anemic number compared to the rest of the adult population, more than 80 percent of whom use the Internet…”
Perhaps the resistance is diminishing…slowly but surely, the road to gero-tecnology helping older adults to age in place can be a reality soon.
Although, at Living Well Assisted Living at Home, we think there is no place to age like home, there are many “housing options” for elders, there are assisted living facilities, continuing care retirement communities, 55+ for the more active ones, boarding care, skilled nursing facilities for the more frail, and now in fashion the dementia care ones. Many options, and although we think people should age in place…at home, always good to know our options.
