A Qualitative Study and Analysis on the Use, Utility and Emotions of Technology by the Elderly in Spain.

EasyChair Preprint 7608

Abstract

Living Labs are spaces and laboratories created in natural areas aimed at social innovation. The basic principle of these labs is improving people's quality of life and the improvement of regions, the functioning of companies, etc. One of the areas in which Living Labs interventions are applied is the elderly. Seniorlabs are initiatives aimed at improving the quality of life of older people. Actions include improving physical health, mental health, the home, and the creation of technologies for these purposes. The qualitative study presented in this document has been carried out with the aim of finding to find out the relationship established between the elderly and digital technology, in other words, what use do the elderly make of it. It also aims to answer the research question: do people over 65 years of age use technology in their daily lives? To carry out the study, using a phenomenological perspective, semi-structured interviews were conducted with people over 65 years of age in Spain. From the study, it can be concluded that various initiatives are optimistically being carried out in different European countries and that impact research on these actions is being published. Finally, it can also be concluded that older people use fewer technologies in their daily lives than those that exist to make their lives easier. The main reasons for this are that they do not know how to use them, or they are afraid to use them and damage the device.

Keyphrases: CAQDAS, Gerontechnological innovation, Techno-social environments

@booklet{EasyChair:7608,
  author    = {Juan Luís Cabanillas-García and Rocío Martín Sevillano and Mª Cruz Sánchez-Gómez and María-Victoria Martín-Cilleros and Sonia Verdugo-Castro and Juan José Mena Marcos and Ana María Pinto Llorente and Vanessa Izquierdo Álvarez},
  title     = {A Qualitative Study and Analysis on the Use, Utility and Emotions of Technology by the Elderly in Spain.},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 7608},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2022}}