Information Issues for Older Americans (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Aspray, William

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There are more than 50 million people age 65 or older in the United States, and over the decade 2010-2019 this was the fastest growing age sector in the United States - growing by 34% during that period. (US Census Bureau) As people age, they face a number of new challenges and opportunities, ranging from the shift from salary to Social Security and retirement funds, increasing issues with health, and opportunities for extended relaxation and second careers. While seniors bring a lifetime of experience and honed skills, they face a number of new situations that involved learning new information and new ways of doing things. Information Issues for Older Americans brings together faculty from the leading Information Schools to examine information needs, behavior, and policy related to older Americans. These scholars use a variety of lenses to understand the information issues that older Americans face in their everyday lives. These lenses include information literacy from both the consumer and provider sides; information behavior to understand search strategies, evaluation of information quality and relevance, sources used, questions raised, and how these change over time; the information ecologies in which an individual lives in his or her private and professional worlds; privacy issues that arise in everyday life; information and communication technologies (ICTs), including the skills of users with these technologies, the expected and unexpected uses of these technologies, and the technology's positive and negative impacts; how ICTs can be used to augment human intelligence and physical skills (human-computer interaction and design); how ICTs, together with traditional information institutions such as libraries and museums and social clubs, have been used to build stronger communities (community informatics). This book is a contribution to the academic literatures on information studies and aging, but it is also intended to be generally readable and be accessible to the educated public and professionals who serve older Americans such as librarians, health care workers, and workers at community centers. While there is a growing literature on health informatics for the elderly, and occasional journal articles on various other topics about information and the elderly, this is the first comprehensive book on the various information aspects of the everyday activities and concerns of older Americans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538150207
• Artikelnr.: 63291250

Autorenporträt

William Aspray is senior research fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He has previously held senior faculty positions in the information schools at Indiana (Bloomington), Texas (Austin), and Colorado (Boulder), as well as several senior administrative appointments in research centers and nonprofit professional organizations (Charles Babbage Institute, IEEE History Center, Computing Research Association). He is the author or editor of more than 30 books and 100 articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
William Aspray 1.Everyday Information Behavior of Older Americans
William Aspray 2.Information
Knowledge
and Successful Aging
William Jones 3.One Senior Citizen's Information Ecosystem and Infrastructure
James W. Cortada 4.AARP and its Competitors as Information Providers
William Aspray 5.Age and Technology in Action Claudia Grisales Bohorquez
Marilyn Kay
Noah Lenstra
and Kate Williams 6.Health Insurance Literacy and Older Adults
Emily Vardell 7.Active Aging in the Era of Smart Devices Pallabi Bhowmick
Clara Caldeira
Kay Connelly
Ben Jelen
Novia Nurain
and Katie A. Siek 8.Telephone-based Communities for Information and Social Connectedness Robin N. Brewer and Mary Janevic 9.Not Your Grandparents' Family Tree: Practices of Privacy in Genetic Genealogical Networks
Judith Pintar 10.The "100% corner": Situational Awareness and Successful Aging in Community
David Hopping 11.Mapping the Research on Digital Information Issues for Older Adults
Unmil Karadkar About the Editor and