Aging In Place Technology Watch April 14, 2021
Pew Research just published its periodic survey about Internet use. Let’s assume consensus that growing the percentage of those using the Internet was a social good. Let’s assume that many are now concerned that older adults may have missed vaccine sign-up opportunities without access to the Internet. Pew’s survey categories included: Age, Rural/Urban, Male-Female, Income, Race, and Education. The result is pretty much ho-hum – if you look only at the headline – 7% of Americans Don’t use the Internet. Let’s say that 77% of the American population are adults (using Census data). Translating the Pew number to non-users of the Internet results in nearly 23 million people. Not a trivial number. Too bad there were no correlations between Age,...
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