Hello, Hi, we meet again. Today I would like to share with all the readers about something that I found while surfing the Twitter. It is something that have to do with the study results. The study is conducted by Philips, a Netherlands company, is a diversified technology company that focused on improving people's life through meaningful innovation in the areas of Healthcare, Consumer Lifestyle and Lighting.
The topic of the study is about "Is Technology The Key to Aging Well?". The study is conducted by Philips with the Global Social Enterprise Initiative at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business asked baby boomers and Generation X about technology's ability to improve their well-being and quality of life as they age. The survey basically conducted to over 118 million Americans that the respondents age is over 50 years old. The study basically focused more Generation X in asking their opinions about how they perceived of using technology in their daily life. Study is more to examine the barriers to technology's ability to improve quality of life for aging population. Based on this study it said that 95% believe that today's technology needs to be better developed to help them successfully age at home or age in place. However, 73% of boomers and Gen X believed that they want to age in their own home and they will have significant barriers to achieving this through the aid of technology such as access and adoption, cost, privacy, complexity of use, product integration and public policy.
Based on the picture above there are 18% of those over 65 own a smart phone and anly 56% use the Internet. These behaviors are echoed in the Philips study as both Gen X and boomers feel that their aging parents (age 60+) are not utilizing technology as well as they could. The findings also include that there are about 53% of boomers and Gen X believed it would be good thing if their parents used technology more with 45% stating that it will help them stay better connected with friends and family. There are 9% of surveyed believe that their parents are savvy when it comes to use the technology. Boomers and Gen X want their aging parents to utilize monitoring technologies, such as home monitors (45%) or security systems (43%).. However only 17% are using home health monitors and 12 percent have a security system. 40% of boomers and Gen X said their parents think technology is "too hard" to learn. It is also said that the problems of learning to use a technology device is one of the potential causes that discourage them to be able to use technology in today's life.
Bill Novelli, Professor of the practice Georgetown University McDonough School of Business and member of the Philips Aging Well Think Tank said that, " For people to live independent, fulfilling lives in their own homes and communities as they age, technology must continue to become easier to learn and use while also being better integrated with adjacent technologies including patient care". Novelli also stated that Philips is helping lead the way to make aging well a reality for more people. Philips is trying to make sure that people will be able to aging well with the development of the technology in today's life due to some of the boomers and Gen X still find problems in order to operate the new technology. In order to cope with those barriers, Philips trying to help others through aging well with the technology in our real life.
It is quite an interesting survey that conducted by Philips due to as we noticed today peoples who aged above 60+ years old are one of the age populations that not using the high technology devices due to they find themselves cannot handle with the high tech in their life.
Hope that this post can help the readers to improve their knowledge about today's technology based on this study that conducted by Philips. Philips such a sensitive company that aware with problems that arouse between baby boomers and Gen X that have difficulty in using technology and come out with this study.
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Sources : http://www.philips-thecenter.org/Aging-Well/recent-activity/2013/INFOGRAPHIC-Aging-Well---Next-Generation-Tech/
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