Sunday, April 11, 2021
The Digital Divide Still Exists For Elders
Pew's recent FactTank released this, 7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they? Want to take a guess who are in this 7%? "Internet non-adoption is linked to a number of demographic variables, but is strongly connected to age – with older Americans continuing to be one of the least likely groups to use the internet. Today, 25% of adults ages 65 and older report never going online, compared with much smaller shares of adults under the age of 65." There is also a correlation between education and the income of a household with being online. There has been some movement. "For example, 86% of adults ages 65 and older did not go online in 2000; today that figure has fallen to just a quarter." Think about this info and recall how important technology use became during COVID.
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/elder_law/2021/04/the-digital-divide-still-exists-for-elders.html