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Originally Posted by meeera
How many "grandmas" do you know? All of my parents and parents-in-law use ereaders, and they're doing just fine thankyouverymuch.
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I know several people older than 70. Counting quickly, I know 9, both men and women. Every single one of them freaks out if a device has more than two or three buttons, let alone a touch screen. (Yes, even the TV's remote control is often a problem, and most of them have had those TV's for 8-10 years or so.)
The exception is one man (82 at the moment) who got into computers in the 80's.
Maybe it's different in other places, but over here, in the south of the Netherlands, the one generalization I can safely make is that if (now elderly) people didn't get into technology in the 80's or 90's, at least at the basic level, they're having problems now. Some of them go as far as unable to use an ATM-machine, and they've been around here since 1984 (IIRC).