Thai Older Persons' Digital Capacity and Application of Technology for Healthy Aging: A Mixed-Method Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Thailand has aged fast, becoming a superaging society. Simultaneously, ongoing rapid digital transformation puts older people at risk of being left behind. Research assessing the digital skills of older people and their application of digital technology for health is a literature gap.

Method

This study is an explanatory-sequential design mixed-method study. Community survey of 500 community older adults in Northern Thailand applied London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) digital skills instrument to measure "operational internet skills," "information navigation skills," "social skills," "creative skills," and "mobile skills" and perceived health and technology use for health promotion. Quantitatively, Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney U tests i

SUBMITTER: Pan TH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12680461 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature