SECAUCUS – The New Jersey Meadowlands Commission has donated 15 computers to the town, which will be installed in the Senior Center and the town’s senior buildings.
Volunteers will be on hand during certain hours to provide computer training and to offer assistance. Seniors will be taught computer basics and given an opportunity to learn at their own pace.
A study released last year by the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Economic Public Policy Studies found that maintaining social contact with friends and family online cut depression among seniors by 20 percent.
Despite the apparent benefits, less than half – about 42 percent, according to the Pew Research Center – of seniors aged 65 and older use the internet.
Computer and online use is, however, rising rapidly among this age group. –
E. Assata Wright