A person of older age certainly needs help and support. This is the age when the person begins to lose the physical strength and feels lagging in mobility. And this is also when they need extra help of other people, someone who can help them in their work and they truly wish for the things to get simplified for them. Technology is an aspect that can decidedly help the elderly citizens in making the life activities simple and easy for them. There are many things in their day to day lives that they have to pursue, particularly those who are living independently without adult children. They want the activities to be less complicated and that which demand lesser physical labor. Healthcare and quality of life are two main things which the elderly people regularly seek. Information technology has certainly played an important role in improvising the health care aspect by delivering better services, supervision and management of data and facilities.
Besides this IT has improved the quality of life for the senior citizens, in a tender age where the mobility comes to a lower scale IT has made it now a 'push button' system for them. Everything can be available at the doors. Lesser mobility is no longer a restriction for them, social networking, communication connectivity, entertainment has all surpassed the geographical boundaries. But these all benefits of IT would be fruitful when the senior citizens would be encouraged to adopt them in their basic life. The challenge is to make the elderly people feel friendly with IT in their lives. The applications, speech and instructions should be made easy to apprehend and to use for the senior citizens.
Besides this IT has improved the quality of life for the senior citizens, in a tender age where the mobility comes to a lower scale IT has made it now a 'push button' system for them. Everything can be available at the doors. Lesser mobility is no longer a restriction for them, social networking, communication connectivity, entertainment has all surpassed the geographical boundaries. But these all benefits of IT would be fruitful when the senior citizens would be encouraged to adopt them in their basic life. The challenge is to make the elderly people feel friendly with IT in their lives. The applications, speech and instructions should be made easy to apprehend and to use for the senior citizens.