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Elderly People Comunication and ICT
Needs analyses in the Italian Realityand some proposals
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Fonte:PEW Reserch Center
Demographics of Social Network Users
Italy: + elderly people - ICT
The elderly people are increasing in Italy like in other parts of the world. But in Italy the percentage, concerning the old, increases more than in the other countries The ICT in Italy are very late and the percentage of people connected to the Net is inferior to the other countries
Elderly People Problems
Difficulties in movementsDifficulties in the relationshipsDifficulties in communicationNeedswarmer and richer relationshipsmoving by car or by public transportsneed to communicate with ICTi
Europe How to get old in a good way• to improve the quality of life of elderly people • to save the costs of health care • to create a solid industrial foundation in Europe to develop
the TIC in order to get old in a good way
Some practical proposals:
• exchanges of good practices among the European countries in order to overcome the tecnichal barriers;
• to encourage the access to the good practices through the control of a website;
• to accelerate the adoption of new tecnologies• to encourage the intelligent applications and those that
favour the autonomy of people• To strenghten the research and the innovation in favour of
elderly people• public and private research programme in the field of
domotic for the weaker categories, • development of products, services and innovative systems
based on TIC
Italy, some perspectives
ICT for: • to be active and productives longer,• to partecipate to social life through more accessible services on
line • to enjoy a longer, healthier and better quality life
throughcommunications at more competitive prices and on line services (only 10% of elderly people works in internet). • to facilitate people with sight, hearing or mobility problems(21% of
people over 50)
Programme activities
to overcome the tecnichal approach in using the computerto use the web as a communication tool To encourage the use of applications which may encourage the integrationto select specific ways to come out from the isolation such as:
o e-mails,o chattingo blogo exchanges of free texts
Contens
Personal InterestsReading booksCommunication on personal experiencesWritten autobiographical reportsDaily life and problemssports and ludic experiences
Tools
• E-mail• Forum• Skype• Blog• Podcast• Letters• Stories• Poems
ExpertiseThe e-mail: sending- receiving - answering - attached fileAudio file: characteristics and usageProgrammes for the creation of audio filesSounds RecorderAudacityvideo file: How to use themSocial nets: Facebook and You TubeSecond life and virtual reality
Expertise
the mobile phonecallingsmsrecording audio filerecording photos and videosreceiving and mailing
Times
A training course of four monthsChoosing a target groupIntensive laboratory on• audio• formats• peripherals• mp3• exchanging files• formats conversion
Scarabeus websites
•Portal - http://www.scarabeus.it •Blog -http://scarabeus-associazione.blogspot.com •Moodle di Scarabeus - COURSES - http://comeweb.ninehub.com
•Scarabeus YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4619104950BFC882
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