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Broadband Adoption and Older Adults: Opportunities and Challenges

Discover the opportunities and challenges faced by older adults in adopting broadband services. Learn about the value of telehealth, staying connected, searching for information, entertainment, e-commerce, e-government, telework, and social media. Explore the challenges of demonstrating value, addressing the technology gap, and ensuring online safety and privacy awareness.

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Broadband Adoption and Older Adults: Opportunities and Challenges

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  1. Broadband Adoption and Older Adults: Opportunities and Challenges Debra BerlynExecutive DirectorThe Project to Get Older Adults onLine (GOAL)

  2. Project GOAL Serve to help promote the adoption of broadband services by older adults. Raise the profile of the challenges confronting the use and adoption of technology within the older community. Create a new voice representing these issues

  3. Launch 2010 Advisory Committee Sponsors Website www.projectgoal.org Informal Coalition of Aging Organizations July Summit

  4. Opportunities Broadband Offers for Older Adults

  5. The Older Adult Community and Internet Usage – the value Telehealth and mobile health monitoring Staying connected to family and friends Searching for information Entertainment Video Chats and exchanging photos

  6. More value… E-commerce E-government Telework Social Media (networking, etc.)

  7. The Social Network and Older Adults? “Young adults continue to be the heaviest users of social media, but their growth pales in comparison with recent gains made by older users,” explains Mary Madden, Senior Research Specialist and author of the report. “Email is still the primary way that older users maintain contact with friends, families and colleagues, but many older users now rely on social network platforms to help manage their daily communications.”

  8. Broadband Challenges for Older Adults: • Demonstrating the value • The technology “gap” – training programs, overcoming the “fear factor” • Online safety and privacy awareness

  9. What’s Next for Project GOAL?

  10. Thank you. For more information please visit www.theprojectgoal.org

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