Quality of life and active aging through educational gerontology in information technology and communication

Abstract

This research was conducted through action research; was through training course information technologies to incorporate into the daily life of an older adult use computers. The sample consisted of 20 elderly who participate in a course designed low assumptions of gerontology, which is the science that studies the changes in old age and during aging. The study was justified because most seniors are not prepared to deal with these technologies and as a result many of them are not active in the technological society, this creates feelings of loneliness, fear, ignorance and forgetfulness, among others. In addition, there is a profound shift in values and social attitudes, changes capable of causing a major rift between young people and their ancestors. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of the inclusion of the elderly to today’s technological society, through the process of learning technologies in Baja California, México.