Un paso más hacia la autogestión digitalproyecto para la autonomía y la inclusión de las personas mayores

Resumo

This paper aims to delve into active aging and the possibilities of learning and inclusion that offer this type of programs for the elder people. Specifically, we focus our analysis in the information and communication technology (ICT) programs, contextualizing the legal frame at European’s level, national and autonomic. Subsequently to this bibliographic review, we proceeded to analyze a particular reality, concretely the reality of the elderly population (older than 50 years) that attends to the Community Centre for Social Welfare of Verín (Ourense), using as a point of reference the users who are nowadays attending a training course about Smartphone's use. In order to achieve our goal, we conduct a survey to value the knowledge and motivation level of these users in relation to the use of ICT. These results were used to design a new continuation project so that the knowledge acquire -which in the beginning was promoted as an activity of leisure- become into a tool which allows them to improve their living standards. Accordingly, we understand the digital gap could be minimized or deleted among these people, reaching thus the social inclusion of this elderly collective.