1. The Digital DivideBetween theYoung and Oldwhy there are sofew seniorsonline, and whythis needs tochangeimage by _Davo_a digital flipbook by @EmilyMarushko

2. can old dogs really be taughtimage by Omega Mannew digital tricks?

3. dontseniorsdeserveto retire inpeace?image by girl-meets-art

4. image by Old Shoe Womanis creating Internet literate seniors...possible?worth-while?

5. seniorsare not immuneto ourincreasinglydigitized worldImage by Joe ShlabotnikRegardless oftheir affinityfor technology,

6. image from Kingstonist.com, source 1evensimpletasks like findingphone numbersfor localbusinesses maysoon requireWeb access

7. image by cavale, source 1the assumption is that youre onlineWhen it comes togovernmentprograms, financial andinsurancestatements, healthinformation or discountcoupons...

8. image by Raumwahrnehmung, source 1

9. amongtheolderold,thoseover77,onlyaboutathirdareonlineyet thats thecohort most likelyto becomeisolatedbyphysicallimitations, poortransportation andthe loss of socialconnectionsImage by christopher_brown, source 1

10. image by My names axel, source 1the group, inotherwords, whomightparticularlybenefit frombeing able tointeract with theworld digitallyfor everythingfrom banking andorderinggroceries to e-mailing farawayfriends

11. education, income, age and locationwere all linked with significant disparityin peoplesdigital competencyimage by Neighborhood Centers, source 2

12. for Canadians 55 and older, incomewas a moreimportant predictor of Internet proficiencyImage by macattck, source 2

13. image by GWSA, source 1in 2000, only 13 percent of seniors wereonlinelast year...a majority (53percent)...of people overage 65 used the Internetprogress

14. image by GWSA, source 1in 2000, only 13 percent of seniors wereonlinelast year...a majority (53percent) of people overage 65 used the Internetprogress...?anemic number compared to the rest of theadult population, more than 80 percent ofwhom use the Internetback in 2000, more than 40 percent of thegroup just behind them, those aged 50 to64, were online. Maybe, 13 years later, thepeople online just got oldermaybe we havent made as much progress as it appears

15. seniors are theones whoveprobably fallenbehind themost, both in termsof access and skillimage by GWSA, source 2

16. image by zen, source 3the main reasonpeople dont goonline is because......they dontthink theInternet isrelevant tothem.

17. image by Jordan Brock, source 3with messages thatget at the relevanceof the Internet, howyou can dosomething, or dosomething better thatyou may alreadydo, by being onlineTo get seniorsonline, encourage them...

18. image by Old Shoe Woman, source 1if a person isopen and interestedand theres something on therethats worth the trouble likevideo of family members or theability to Skype with familythey canlearn to use acomputer ora tablet

19. we cant simply assume that accessequates with efficient or beneficial use ofthe Internet... You need to combineaccess with appropriate digitalliteracy to really take advantageimage by CSDs Learning Division, source 2crossing thedigital dividedemands amulti-facetedapproach

20. image by dkuropatwa, source 1A number of programs have triedto address this disparity, but theytend to be small-scale and local

21. we want faster adoption. Itsgoing to take big nationalorganizations with deeppockets...to undertake abigger, faster and moreeffective effort than ourcurrent piecemealapproachimage by jaygoldman, source 1

22. image by arnybo, source 1tablets are cheaper than most desktops and laptops

23. image by Oldwoodchuck, source 1Just within2012...among those over age 77, tabletownership...jumped to 12 percent from3 percent

24. image by keoshi

25. but it will take alarge, conscious, andorganized effort toachieve real progressimage by Andrew Olanoff

26. ImagesLicensed under Creative Commons andsourced from Flickr

27. Sources1. Online Habits Coming Slowly to OlderAdults. By Paula Span. New York Times.April 2013.2. Digital Divide Persists in Canada, both inAccess and Internet Fluency. By Misty Harris.Financial Post. 2013 March.3. A Campaign to Help People Learn InternetSkills. By Jane Levere. New York Times.2013 March.