On the upside, modern tech is a potential antidote to this. Some elderly are able to keep their freedom and the dignity and quality of life that go with it by using tech to stay connected, provide reminders and alarms and so forth to mitigate some of the issues that cause us to think they would be better off with supervision in a nursing home.
If this concerns you and you are a programmer or similar, you may be able to contribute to such solutions.
>Some elderly are able to keep their freedom and the dignity and quality of life that go with it by using tech to stay connected, provide reminders and alarms and so forth to mitigate some of the issues that cause us to think they would be better off with supervision in a nursing home.
Yeah. My 83 year old Mom with multiple issues views those tools as something only an old lady needs, and so rejects them. She can use Facebook with the same level of skill as it takes to make and receive the phone calls that the social internet supplanted.
Right now, "elderly" is largely people who were born before most people owned televisions, and technological solutions aren't always greeted with a "yay, more!" attitude. I'm sure a lot of prewar and boomer people stopped wanting to learn yet another piece of "modern tech" somewhere between TiVo and smart phones.
If this concerns you and you are a programmer or similar, you may be able to contribute to such solutions.