USING NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE ELDERLY IN A RURAL LOCALITY

With this article, we seek to carry out a vision of the possibilities the New Information and Communications Technologies offer for learning, concretely for their use by the elderly, understanding that these are means and channels to be used and enjoyed exclusively by youths, as several authorities think. Especially, if we keep in mind that we meet a constantly increasing number of elderly that decide to give answer to queries or ambitions that, for some reason, they have not been able to solve in previous times of their life. The latest breakthroughs in Information and Communications Technology provide the almost 8 million over-65-years-old Spaniards with solutions helping them to remain socially active. Therefore, we made a short descriptive questionnaire to attain the objectives we had in mind. The results show little and slightly growing use of Internet and the new technologies in a rural population called Cabezon de Pisuerga in Valladolic province.