Conference 'Aging in the digital age: challenges and opportunities for inclusion'

Next Thursday, December 4, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., the Ferrer i Guàrdia Foundation will share the first representative X-ray of the digital divide in people over 60 years of age in Spain.

The Ferrer i Guàrdia Foundation will organize a conference to present the results of the fourth edition of the surveys on digital divides in Spain. The meeting will take place next Thursday, December 4, from 10 am to 12 pm, at the facilities of the Canòdrom. The Ateneu d'Innovació Digital i Democràtica., which is located at Carrer de Concepción Arenal, number 165, in the city of Barcelona. Under the title 'Aging in the digital era: challenges and opportunities for inclusion', the conference will share the first representative radiography of the digital divide in people over 60 years of age in Spain. The meeting will begin at 10 am with an official welcome by Hungria Panadero, director of the Ferrer i Guàrdia Foundation, and the presentation 'Aging and the Digital Divide' by Vânia de la Fuente, doctor, anthropologist and international expert in longevity, healthy aging and geriatrics. This will be followed by a presentation of the results by Sandra Gómez and Marta Fullola, researchers from the Ferrer i Guàrdia Foundation. There will also be a round table to discuss the challenges of digitalization among the elderly with the participation of four experts in digital inclusion, rights and active aging: Sergi Arenas, a gerontologist expert in psychology and aging from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Mar Beneyto, a member of the Social and Digital Innovation Laboratory at the University of Vic, the 'SeniorLab' project from the CitiLab in Cornellà and the 'Extremadura rural, connected and digital' initiative.

The fourth edition of the surveys on digital divides in Spain shows how digital inequality impacts daily life, opportunities and digital rights and reveals the reality of people over 74 years of age, a group that is often left out of official statistics. The analysis has been complemented with discussion groups with people of diverse profiles and from different territories in order to delve deeper into the determinants of socio-digital exclusion such as, for example, the role of ageist stereotypes, the challenges of public policies to promote digital rights or the role of technology in everyday areas such as health, care or aging processes. The conference 'Aging in the Digital Age' can be followed online.

Interested people can register online through this link .