วันศุกร์ที่ 25 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2554

How youngsters are helping older people move online

students are enrolled in nursing homes to ensure that seniors are not left in the digital age

once a week, Doreen Burton, 75, brings together photographs and addresses of the activity room at the care home in Leicester South Hotel. There, he helps you scan pictures of their families. Many late husband Burton, and back to the 1950s, showing him posing with his football team and his uniform when he did his military service with the Royal Signals. They get a simple and safe social network designed for the elderly. With the help of two students of 16 years in the city of St. Paul Catholic Burton kinds of memories that accompany them. His writing is poor these days and you want your children and grandchildren to keep track of the history of the family.

The weekly sessions are part of the adoption of a nursing home, an initiative that encourages young people in schools, colleges, the Duke of Edinburgh program and other groups to go home and help residents to get online.

is the idea of ??Lilla Harris, a former nurse and home care manager wanted to do more to help residents start using the internet. He founded, with partner Howard Bashford, the Finerday free network, which aims to encourage older people to share messages, photos and memories with family and friends -. Help avoid becoming isolated as the world moves online

"Lilla said that every morning, residents still fell at his post, but there was none," said Bashford. "Over the years, I had seen old photos fade. We decided to try to do something. "

Take home care began earlier this year and was recognized for his work on digital inclusion. Online career, Martha Lane Fox has the initiative to get everyone in the UK working age use the Internet for next year, is impressed by the effect of diet in some of the most difficult to reach people and develop intergenerational relationships. About 62% of 10.3 million dollars over 65 years in the UK have never used the Internet, according to online racing. This compares with 17% of adults in general.

home workers often want to help residents access the Internet, Bashford said, but perhaps not the time. Harris idea of ??involving young people was "one of those magic moments."

home care Avery Cliftonville Northampton, recreational and leisure organizer Marie Bedford is hoping to sign the home until the adoption of a plan of care at home after seeing the effect of the Skype technology was one of the residents. Enid Adamson, 87, had not seen his daughter, Julie, who lives in New Zealand for two years, and he feared he could not return. Now she talks to him once a week on a large screen with a webcam and a microphone.

"I was surprised when I heard about it," says Adamson. "One can not imagine talking to someone so far without any difficulty.


"It's wonderful to be able to see what makes it so exciting ... It is perfect on the screen is so real is no doubt that we are talking about a screen, it is talking to him. It is a gem. "


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