Here is a News.com article which proclaims that the Internet fails to shine for ‘silver surfers’:
“Silver surfers”–Internet users older than 60–are coming online in growing numbers, raising questions about the need for improved Internet access. Better accessibility and functions aren’t necessarily right around the corner, but the rewards they promise are great. One likely advance: tools for people taking multiple medications and seeing several doctors, functionality that could help prevent accidental deaths.
You want better accessibility? Make Internet TVs. That is, televisions that can access the Internet via a remote control. In my experience, almost all seniors consistently prove two things: they are scared of computers, and they sure know how to sit around and watch TV.
Are seniors going to sit at a computer and sign into an instant messenger to receive alerts from their doctor about the medication they are taking? I doubt it, but I bet picture-in-picture alerts would work! Of course, I mean current seniors. In another 30 years, our seniors will be more technologically inclined as they will have spent the good majority of their younger life with technology.
Read: CNET News.com
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