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Information Issues for Older Americans brings together leading faculty from the leading Information Schools to examine information needs, behavior, and policy related to older Americans.
List of contents
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
About the author
William Aspray, professor of information science, University of Colorado Boulder. Author or editor of more than 25 books on the history of computing, mathematics, and information, has written for such presses as MIT Press, Basic Books, and Springer.
Summary
Information Issues for Older Americans brings together leading faculty from the leading Information Schools to examine information needs, behavior, and policy related to older Americans.
