Elderly People 

Comunication and ICT

Needs analyses in the Italian Reality

and some proposals

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Fonte:PEW Reserch Center
Demographics of Social Network
Users
 Italy:
+ elderly people
- ICT

The elderly people are increasing in Italy like in other parts of

the world.
But in Italy the percentage, concerning the old, increases more
than in the other countries

The ICT in Italy are very late and the percentage of people
connected to the Net is inferior to the other countries
Elderly People Problems

Difficulties in movements
Difficulties in the relationships
Difficulties in communication
Needs
warmer and richer relationships
moving by car or by public transports
need to communicate with ICTi
 Europe
How to get old in a good way
• to improve the quality of life of elderly people
• to save the costs of health care
• to create a solid industrial foundation in Europe to develop
the TIC in order to get old in a good way
Some practical proposals:

• exchanges of good practices among the European countries

in order to overcome the tecnichal barriers;
• to encourage the access to the good practices through the
control of a website;
• to accelerate the adoption of new tecnologies
• to encourage the intelligent applications and those that
favour the autonomy of people
• To strenghten the research and the innovation in favour of
elderly people
• public and private research programme in the field of
domotic for the weaker categories,
• development of products, services and innovative systems
based on TIC
Italy, some perspectives
ICT for:

• to be active and productives longer,

• to partecipate to social life through more accessible services on
line
• to enjoy a longer, healthier and better quality life

through
communications at more competitive prices and on line services (only
10% of elderly people works in internet).
• to facilitate people with sight, hearing or mobility problems(21% of
people over 50)
Programme activities
to overcome the tecnichal approach in using the
computer
to use the web as a communication tool
To encourage the use of applications which may
encourage the integration
to select specific ways to come out from the isolation
such as:
o e-mails,
o chatting
o blog
o exchanges of free texts
Contens
Personal Interests
Reading books
Communication on personal
experiences
Written autobiographical
reports
Daily life and problems
sports and ludic experiences
Tools

• E-mail
• Forum
• Skype
• Blog
• Podcast
• Letters
• Stories
• Poems
Expertise
The e-mail: sending- receiving -
answering - attached file
Audio file: characteristics and usage
Programmes for the creation of audio
files
Sounds Recorder
Audacity
video file: How to use them
Social nets: Facebook and You Tube
Second life and virtual reality
Expertise

the mobile phone

calling
sms
recording audio file
recording photos and videos
receiving and mailing
Times

A training course of four months

Choosing a target group
Intensive laboratory on
• audio
• formats
• peripherals
• mp3
• exchanging files
• formats conversion
Scarabeus websites

• Portal -  http://www.scarabeus.it
• Blog -
http://scarabeus-associazione.blogspot.com
• Moodle di Scarabeus - COURSES -
http://comeweb.ninehub.com
• Scarabeus YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p
Thank for your attention!