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"It keeps dropping out!"
— the need to address the ongoing digital divide to achieve improved health and well-being benefits for older rural Australians | | Author(s) | Judi Walker |
| Journal title | Australasian Journal on Ageing, vol 36, no 4, December 2017 |
| Publisher | Wiley, December 2017 |
| Pages | pp 262-263 |
| Source | http://www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ajag |
| Keywords | Information technology ; Computers ; Health [elderly] ; Well being ; Social inclusion ; Rural areas ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Commentary on the article `Although we're isolated, we're not really isolated' in the same issue of this journal (pp 313-317). The article examines how information and communications technology (ICT) may facilitate wellbeing for rural older Australians by compensating for geographic and social isolation. This commentary briefly looks at the role of ICT in improving health and wellbeing and overcoming rural disadvantage; the problem of the digital divide; and the rollout of the Australian National Broadband Network from 2009. The author concludes that while ICT can reduce social isolation and in turn improve wellbeing for rural older Australians, lack of access to ICT can exacerbate or increase that isolation. Rural digital inclusion policies must take a systematic and integrated approach to digital engagement that accounts for interrelations between infrastructure, adoption and usage of ICT in rural areas. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180119213 A |
| Classmark | UVB: 3O: CC: D:F:5HH: RNA: RL: 7YA |
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