One swing of your hand and the ball slowly rolls towards the pin, and strike, all pins down. Online sports games like bowling on Wii or Xbox 360 Kinect has improved processing speed, attention span, and spatial skills among older adults. Video games, internet-based devices and other technologies are changing our traditional ways of living, making our lives more convenient and comfortable. In fact, technology is the biggest drive in our lives that controls our ways of thinking, learning, and communicating. It is common to equate it to machinery or a device; however, its main use is to apply scientific knowledge to ease practical tasks. Education, health, transportation and businesses are all influenced by the various uses of technology. Yet,
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However, technology is important to learn because it can decrease social isolation, and equally, influence their health and their mind. Even so, this notion is disapproved by many advocates who oppose to assure that technology can harm their health and decrease face-to-face communication. Most of these critics are overly dogmatic and opinionated in their belief that they fail to look at the conception from a different perspective. The use of technology in elders’ daily lives can not only enhance their social and mental capacity but also boost their life expectancy.
Technology is beneficial as far as health and mind yet, many critics contend that for every advantage technology brings to the people, it evenly brings disadvantages as well. One of the biggest disadvantages of using technology is that it decreases face-to-face communication. Many researchers fear that the general population’s use of the digital world as a form of communication is little by little destroying the meaningfulness of interaction. Alex Lieberman, an assistant vice president for student health and counselling services at the University of Chicago explores the ways in which technology affects relationships …show more content…
The authors, faculty members of the Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, looked at two distinctive case studies to show how clinicians can use communication technology for therapeutic treatments to treat elderly patients. They collected responses from two older adults above the age of 80 to see the effect of technology in their daily lives. Mrs. Smith, an 89-year-old widow, participated in the research where they incorporate an Ipad in the therapy. For instance, she used it to read daily news and searched positive news stories. The iPad became a tool for her for listening to music, searching musicians and writers, and to read the news. “Grounding techniques serve to help reduce distraction and distress through strategies that typically involve deep breathing, refocussing techniques and sensory techniques” (Rehm et al). This quote clarifies how the iPad worked as a strategy to ease stress and help Mrs. Smith with her movements and her attention span. Mrs. Anderson, a 92-year old widow and a mother of two adult children is also another example of how technology can extend one’s mental limits. She was diagnosed with a depressive disorder and encountered age-related impairment. Her engagement with the Ipad significantly improved her
However, technology is important to learn because it can decrease social isolation, and equally, influence their health and their mind. Even so, this notion is disapproved by many advocates who oppose to assure that technology can harm their health and decrease face-to-face communication. Most of these critics are overly dogmatic and opinionated in their belief that they fail to look at the conception from a different perspective. The use of technology in elders’ daily lives can not only enhance their social and mental capacity but also boost their life expectancy.
Technology is beneficial as far as health and mind yet, many critics contend that for every advantage technology brings to the people, it evenly brings disadvantages as well. One of the biggest disadvantages of using technology is that it decreases face-to-face communication. Many researchers fear that the general population’s use of the digital world as a form of communication is little by little destroying the meaningfulness of interaction. Alex Lieberman, an assistant vice president for student health and counselling services at the University of Chicago explores the ways in which technology affects relationships …show more content…
The authors, faculty members of the Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, looked at two distinctive case studies to show how clinicians can use communication technology for therapeutic treatments to treat elderly patients. They collected responses from two older adults above the age of 80 to see the effect of technology in their daily lives. Mrs. Smith, an 89-year-old widow, participated in the research where they incorporate an Ipad in the therapy. For instance, she used it to read daily news and searched positive news stories. The iPad became a tool for her for listening to music, searching musicians and writers, and to read the news. “Grounding techniques serve to help reduce distraction and distress through strategies that typically involve deep breathing, refocussing techniques and sensory techniques” (Rehm et al). This quote clarifies how the iPad worked as a strategy to ease stress and help Mrs. Smith with her movements and her attention span. Mrs. Anderson, a 92-year old widow and a mother of two adult children is also another example of how technology can extend one’s mental limits. She was diagnosed with a depressive disorder and encountered age-related impairment. Her engagement with the Ipad significantly improved her