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ALLIANCE STARTS TO SPREAD ITS WINGS

It’s just one year since the concept of an “Age Action Alliance” was born. A year on, and there’s no holding it back. Tony Watts talks to DWP’s Helen Dimmock, who has helped play the role of ‘midwife’...

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Digital inclusion: getting older people to connect

What is holding up digital adoption for so many older people? Shelagh Marshall, Chair of Future Years (Yorkshire & The Humber Forum on Ageing) has her views on the subject… In August the government...

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New guide launched to support computer activities for people with dementia

A new guide has been launched by Age Action Alliance member the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), which is designed to help support computer activities for people with dementia. “Using ICT...

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It’s time to re-think digital inclusion

With huge numbers of older people still not using the Internet, David Wilcox argues that it’s time for a rethink on the way we promote and enable digital inclusion. The recent Age UK London report on...

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Digital inclusion… from a BB generation perspective

Mervyn Eastman replies to David Wilcox’s “Time to re-think digital inclusion”, with his reservations about current initiatives – not least that they make too many generalized assumptions about older...

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Let’s break down the artificial barriers between digital inclusion and...

An EU-funded study encompassing Italy and South West England has just demonstrated the significant health benefits of social media for older people. At the report launch in Italy, Tony Watts OBE gave...

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