Digital Engagement of Older Adults: Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital technologies facilitate everyday life, social connectedness, aging at home, well-being, and dignified care. However, older adults are disproportionately excluded from these benefits. Equal digital opportunities, access, and meaningful engagement require an understanding of older adults' experience across different stages of the technological engagement life cycle from nonuse and initial adoption to sustained use, factors influencing their decisions, and how the experience changes over time.

Objective

Our objectives were to identify the extent and breadth of existing literature on older adults' perspective on digital engagement and summarize the barriers to and facilitators for technological nonuse, initial adoption, and sustained digital technology engagem

SUBMITTER: Kebede AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9773036 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature