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Even though mobile phone devices and its related services offer immense benefits to people all over the world, older adults are lacking behind as they encounter difficulties in accessing these devices and its services. These difficulties they encounter are mainly due to the natural decline of their cognitive abilities and the rarity of mobile phone developers and service providers considering older adults as users in the development of their products. The existence of current mobile phone devices and its related services promoted shows evidence that older adults are not considered in today’s production of mobile phone devices and its related services. For example, the buttons on the screen of most current mobile …show more content…
With our mobile phones, we can perform many services that saves us time and preserves our energy. For instance, an individual living in Accra does not need to travel all the way to Kumasi to find out if a particular shop has in stock a desired item the individual would love to purchase. With the use of mobile phone, the individual can call the shop in Kumasi to make enquiries about the product without travelling. Also, with the use of mobile phone services such as Mobile Money, one can pay various utility bills on the go without travelling to the office of the utility provider, thus saving time, energy and money required for transport. Of all the numerous benefits and services offered by our mobile phones, not all classes of people are enjoying. Some people are finding it difficult to use mobile phone devices and its related services. These class of people I am talking about are affectionately called older adults, individuals aged 65 and above. According to the National Institute on Aging of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 8 percent of the world’s population are made up of older adults (National Institute on Aging, 2015). As the cognitive abilities of older adults decline naturally, the ability of older adults to use these mobile phone devices and its related services with ease would help improve their daily lives. For example, as older adults suffer from health related issues and are required to take their medicines regularly on time, an older adult could use his or her mobile phone to set an alarm or a reminder, which would help him or her take the medicine appropriately. This when done would go a long way to improve his or her health. Let’s imagine the benefits older adults would enjoy if they are able to access their phones to use MTN mobile money service to pay their utility bills. In most households
Even though mobile phone devices and its related services offer immense benefits to people all over the world, older adults are lacking behind as they encounter difficulties in accessing these devices and its services. These difficulties they encounter are mainly due to the natural decline of their cognitive abilities and the rarity of mobile phone developers and service providers considering older adults as users in the development of their products. The existence of current mobile phone devices and its related services promoted shows evidence that older adults are not considered in today’s production of mobile phone devices and its related services. For example, the buttons on the screen of most current mobile …show more content…
With our mobile phones, we can perform many services that saves us time and preserves our energy. For instance, an individual living in Accra does not need to travel all the way to Kumasi to find out if a particular shop has in stock a desired item the individual would love to purchase. With the use of mobile phone, the individual can call the shop in Kumasi to make enquiries about the product without travelling. Also, with the use of mobile phone services such as Mobile Money, one can pay various utility bills on the go without travelling to the office of the utility provider, thus saving time, energy and money required for transport. Of all the numerous benefits and services offered by our mobile phones, not all classes of people are enjoying. Some people are finding it difficult to use mobile phone devices and its related services. These class of people I am talking about are affectionately called older adults, individuals aged 65 and above. According to the National Institute on Aging of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 8 percent of the world’s population are made up of older adults (National Institute on Aging, 2015). As the cognitive abilities of older adults decline naturally, the ability of older adults to use these mobile phone devices and its related services with ease would help improve their daily lives. For example, as older adults suffer from health related issues and are required to take their medicines regularly on time, an older adult could use his or her mobile phone to set an alarm or a reminder, which would help him or her take the medicine appropriately. This when done would go a long way to improve his or her health. Let’s imagine the benefits older adults would enjoy if they are able to access their phones to use MTN mobile money service to pay their utility bills. In most households