Ageing In A Digital World

How are older people using digital technology?

This is a Podcast which focuses on older adults' use of technology (including social media) for social connection. The podcast focuses on the various ways in which the individuals use technology to connect to others, their motivations for doing so, and the facilitators/barriers of using technology in this way. You can listen to the Podcast on the SoundCloud website by clicking on the button below. The podcast should begin to play automatically. You do not need to create an account or log in.

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Phase one was a qualitative study involving 20 older adults across the UK who regularly use technology to connect with others, and this informed phase two, a national survey of 400 older adults.

The findings from Phase one have been developed into the podcast, which includes the participants’ voices, and narration, to illustrate the themes generated in the study.

This podcast, "Ageing in a Digital World", considers findings from a research study carried out by Dr Gemma Wilson, Mrs Jessica Gates, Dr Santosh Vijaykumar, and Dr Deborah Morgan. The study was carried out in 2 phases: phase one was a qualitative study involving 20 older adults across the UK who regularly use technology to connect with others, and this informed phase two, a national survey of 400 older adults.

This podcast was funded by the British Academy as part of a study funded by BA/Leverhulme Small Grants Fund.

Each individual’s name used in this podcast, is a pseudonym, and all other identified names have been removed to comply with ethical guidelines.

This is an educational non for profit project, carried out by the research team at Northumbria and Swansea Universities.

We would like to sincerely thank the participants that took part in this research project.

For further information please contact Dr Gemma Wilson at gemma.wilson@northumbria.ac.uk or via twitter @drgemmawilson