THE BLOG:a tehnological

solutionof benefit for the elders

Gabriela GROSSECK

West University of Timisoara

http://grosseck.blogspot.com Photo: © Lisa Anderson, 2007

http://flickr.com/photos/80962685@N00/358316316/in/photostream/

Although the last years of our life …

• involve drastic

even frustrating changes in our way of life

• the accommodation difficulties at this age

can be overcome

• even with the means of technology

Photo: © Lisa Anderson, 2007

http://flickr.com/photos/80962685@N00/358316318/

THE Blog

•a website that contains dated entries in reverse chronological order about a particular topic

•quick way to publish news and happenings: a space for elders to publish their thoughts

•free and easy: no need to learn HTML or FTP

•personal: on-line journal, a diary or history

http://dontoearth.blogspot.com/

http://allanloof.blogspot.com/

Ray Franklin White94 year-old

6 blogs about gardens, flowers, birds, family http://journals.aol.com/white6416r/DadsTomatoGardenJournal/

http://amis95.blogspot.com/

http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/

Doina Popescu, Romaniahttp://doinapopescu.hotnews.ro/index.php

A kind of videoblog on YouTube

PETER OAKLEY

79-year-old

a video maker

a modest and reclusive writer

with a marvelous memory

reveals details of his very private life

The future: Social networking blogs

The Blog a Solutionof Benefit for the Elders

• a new Web-instrument that can cause benefic readjustments to the way of life of the older people

• strengthen the social prestige and self esteem of the third age

• induce major changes to the way older people are percepted and to the interest society shows to their problems

Thank you! Q&A?

Photo: © Lisa Anderson, 2007

http://flickr.com/photos/80962685@N00/358314120/in/photostream/