Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos; Scientific and technological advances bring individual and collective psychosocial implications. Thus, the inclusion of the elderly in the context of development of new technologies of information and communication is needed. The present study investigated whether participants do searches about health on the internet and how these searches influence the life quality of the el...
The present study analyses how the elderly participants of a digital inclusion program do searches about health using the internet and how these information are related to their self-reported diseases. This study is grounded on theoretical studies of Gerontology and the Science, Technology and Society – STS field. The aspects of the nature and access to health information through the internet of 19 elderly were...