When the perception of aging helps to understand the uses of technology by the elderly - Klein, Armelle (EHESS, Campus Condorcet, 2022)
In France, Technologies of Health and Autonomy (THA) have been frequently mentioned since the early 2000s as a way to support people as they age. Although they were originally mainly related to loss of autonomy, today they support a more global vision of advancing age in connection with the more systematic consideration of the diversity of aging trajectories in public policies and actions. They are more and more institutionalized and are spreading rapidly like ICT. This paper aims to present the results of a survey conducted as part of a PhD on the uses of telecare and ICT by the elderly in Reunion island. The elderly of Reunion Island share a rather negative vision of aging, given the difficult life course and conditions that many of them have experienced. This research shows in particular that the perception of innovation and the positioning in relation to one's own ageing are determining factors to understand the uses and non-uses of technology by the elderly and that it enhance to analyze them in terms of social reconfigurations that occur throughout the ageing process.
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