Broadband: Leveling the Playing Field for the Elderly
In this interview, Joy Howell, the Director of the “How Broadband Changed My Life Campaign” at the Alliance for Public Technology, discusses how broadband is leveling the playing field for the elderly. Joy highlights how broadband is enabling seniors to live independently and keeping them better connected to their families and communities. Joy also emphasizes how the use of broadband technologies provides seniors with vital health care information and increases access to specialists who may be thousands of miles away. Joy concludes, “Broadband is changing people’s lives in every possible way”.
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April 25th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
This is a very helpful and interesting interview. Another great resource for information on Seniors and the internet is Seniornet. www.seniornet.org
And,just for the record, most of us (over 60) seniors have grown up professionally with technology, and we will find many ways to use it as we age.