The document analyzes the communication and ICT needs of the elderly in Italy, highlighting their increasing population and the challenges they face, including difficulties in movement and technology access. Proposals for improvement include sharing best practices across Europe, encouraging technology adoption, and enhancing research and innovation tailored for seniors. The goal is to help elderly individuals lead healthier, more connected lives while reducing healthcare costs.

1. Elderly People Comunication and ICT Needs analyses in the Italian Reality and some proposals Scarabeus - no profit cultural association - Livorno http://www.scarabeus.it Scarabeus http://www.scarabeus.it

2. Fonte:PEW Reserch Center

3. Demographics of Social Network Users

4. Italy: + elderly people - ICT The elderly people are increasing in Italy like in other parts of the world. But in Italy the percentage, concerning the old, increases more than in the other countries The ICT in Italy are very late and the percentage of people connected to the Net is inferior to the other countries

5. Elderly People Problems Difficulties in movements Difficulties in the relationships Difficulties in communication Needs warmer and richer relationships moving by car or by public transports need to communicate with ICTi

6. Europe How to get old in a good way to improve the quality of life of elderly people to save the costs of health care to create a solid industrial foundation in Europe to develop the TIC in order to get old in a good way

7. Some practical proposals: exchanges of good practices among the European countries in order to overcome the tecnichal barriers; to encourage the access to the good practices through the control of a website; to accelerate the adoption of new tecnologies to encourage the intelligent applications and those that favour the autonomy of people To strenghten the research and the innovation in favour of elderly people public and private research programme in the field of domotic for the weaker categories, development of products, services and innovative systems based on TIC

8. Italy, some perspectives ICT for: to be active and productives longer, to partecipate to social life through more accessible services on line to enjoy a longer, healthier and better quality life through communications at more competitive prices and on line services (only 10% of elderly people works in internet) . to facilitate people with sight, hearing or mobility problems(21% of people over 50)

9. Programme activities to overcome the tecnichal approach in using the computer to use the web as a communication tool To encourage the use of applications which may encourage the integration to select specific ways to come out from the isolation such as: e-mails, chatting blog exchanges of free texts

10. Contens Personal Interests Reading books Communication on personal experiences Written autobiographical reports Daily life and problems sports and ludic experiences

11. Tools E-mail Forum Skype Blog Podcast Letters Stories Poems

12. Expertise The e-mail: sending- receiving - answering - attached file Audio file: characteristics and usage Programmes for the creation of audio files Sounds Recorder Audacity video file: How to use them Social nets: Facebook and You Tube Second life and virtual reality

13. Expertise the mobile phone calling sms recording audio file recording photos and videos receiving and mailing

14. Times A training course of four months Choosing a target group Intensive laboratory on audio formats peripherals mp3 exchanging files formats conversion

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