Mobile phones and the internet are useful for older people. What are the ways they can use it? How they can be encouraged?

Mobile phones and the

internet

are very useful for old people.

However

,

this

section of population The world becomes a smaller place due to technological advancement. Especially mobile phones are now an integral part of everyone’s life.

Although

having access to smartphones, senior citizens are reluctant to

use

it at full efficiency,

hence

their

use

is limited to voice calling only.

Inspite

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In spite

,

this

generation can be encouraged to

use

phone

,

internet

and technology for their betterment. Starting from killing the time to net banking, mobile and

internet

is

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bliss for senior citizens. Social media platforms like

instagram

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Instagram

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,

facebook

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and

twitter

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Twitter

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can help them to spend their lonely time with informative content and

social

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as well.If they are living alone, they can be connected to their dear ones through video calling and experienced to be together.Various application

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exclusively meant for senior citizens having

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eligious narrative, prayers that can be listened

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to calm down themselves.

In addition

, online shopping and banking can minimize the physical effort required by doorstep delivery and no hassle of travelling.

However

, the older generation

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afraid of using an

internet

smartphone because they always question the privacy and security of

such

technologies. Though, they can be motivated to

use

it by generating awareness, teaching and providing handholding support.

For example

, we gifted a

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phone

to my grandfather on his ‘diamond jubilee’ birthday but he was affirmative to not to

use

the

phone

as it was complex for him to

use

. But once

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and my younger brother had shown him each and every function of the

phone

and

use

of the

internet

, he found it easy and now using it at the same pace we are using. In nutshell, if one can teach and motivate the senior citizen on the usefulness of mobile and

internet

,

this

generation can do wonders in using

this

technology for their individual benefits.