The digital health divide is working against many people on Medicare. How some groups want to address this ‘urgent problem’

The result for these Americans aged 65 and older due to this digital divide? Worsening health inequities and heightened health problems. Digital literacy and Internet connectivity have been dubbed “super social determinants of health.”

An August 2022 Frontiers in Public Health article noted: “With the rapid development of digital health today, the lack of digital health literacy in older adults is an urgent problem.”

Digital health literacy: A social determinant of health

“I think digital literacy at its...