Predictors in starting and stopping Internet use between 2002 and 2012 by Dutch adults 65 years and older

Berner, Jessica; Aartsen, Marja; Deeg, Dorly J. H.

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“…In particular, specific internet activities could be addressed. Also, more specific cognitive outcomes could be examined, such as information processing speed, cognitive flexibility, and magnetic resonance imaging (Slegers et al, 2009;Webster et al, 2017), and more pertinent confounders could be added, such as vision impairment and personality (Gell et al, 2015;Berner et al, 2017). If replicated, our findings may warrant well-designed intervention studies (Klimova, 2016;Yates et al, 2016).…”

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Maintaining cognitive function with internet use: a two-country, six-year longitudinal study

Berner

Comijs

Elmståhl

et al. 2019

Int. Psychogeriatr.

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Objectives:Maintaining good cognitive function with aging may be aided by technology such as computers, tablets, and their applications. Little research so far has investigated whether internet use helps to maintain cognitive function over time.Design:Two population-based studies with a longitudinal design from 2001/2003 (T1) to 2007/2010 (T2).Setting:Sweden and the Netherlands.Participants:Older adults aged 66 years and above from the Swedish National Study on Ageing and Care (N = 2,564) and from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (N = 683).Measurements:Internet use was self-reported. Using the scores from the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) from T1 and T2, both a difference score and a significant change index was calculated. Linear and logistic regression analysis were performed with difference score and significant change index, respectively, as the dependent variable and internet use as the independent variable, and adjusted for sex, education, age, living situation, and functional limitations. Using a meta-analytic approach, summary coefficients were calculated across both studies.Results:Internet use at baseline was 26.4% in Sweden and 13.3% in the Netherlands. Significant cognitive decline over six years amounted to 9.2% in Sweden and 17.0% in the Netherlands. Considering the difference score, the summary linear regression coefficient for internet use was −0.32 (95% CI: −0.62, −0.02). Considering the significant change index, the summary odds ratio for internet use was 0.54 (95% CI: 0.37, 0.78).Conclusions:The results suggest that internet use might play a role in maintaining cognitive functioning. Further research into the specific activities that older adults are doing on the internet may shine light on this issue.

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“…Research has indicated that it is possible to compensate for changes in the aging brain, as seen with some older adults (Cabeza et al, 2002). Using the internet may help older people to train certain tasks, which in turn may help them to avoid losses and foster maintenance.…”

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Maintaining cognitive function with internet use: a two-country, six-year longitudinal study

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“…Covariates were selected a priori on the basis of previous studies showing associations between these variables and the exposure and outcomes of interest. Covariates assessed in this study were age and sex, as they are both independently associated with differences in internet use (Hogeboom et al, 2010;Choi and Dinitto, 2013;Berner et al, 2017;Bol et al, 2018;Office for National Statistics, 2018a;Quintana et al, 2018), loneliness and social isolation (Kobayashi and Steptoe, 2018). Sex was reported as male or female.…”

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“…Age was input in categories of 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, 80-89 and 90+ years. Marital status (married/living as married versus single) has also been associated with internet use (Hogeboom et al, 2010;Berner et al, 2017), social isolation and loneliness (Peplau, 1985;Grenade and Boldy, 2008;Steptoe et al, 2013b;Hawkley and Kocherginsky, 2017;Kobayashi and Steptoe, 2018). Socio-economic status (SES) was assessed using household non-pension wealth as this has been identified as an appropriate indicator of SES in older adults (Banks et al, 2004) and used in previous studies utilising the ELSA data-set Smith et al, 2015;Quintana et al, 2018;Jackson et al, 2019aJackson et al, , 2019b.…”

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Internet use, social isolation and loneliness in older adults

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The aim of this study was to explore associations between internet/email use in a large sample of older English adults with their social isolation and loneliness. Data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing Wave 8 were used, with complete data available for 4,492 men and women aged ⩾ 50 years (mean age = 64.3, standard deviation = 13.3; 51.7% males). Binomial logistic regression was used to analyse cross-sectional associations between internet/email use and social isolation and loneliness. The majority of older adults reported using the internet/email every day (69.3%), fewer participants reported once a week (8.5%), once a month (2.6%), once every three months (0.7%), less than every three months (1.5%) and never (17.4%). No significant associations were found between internet/email use and loneliness, however, non-linear associations were found for social isolation. Older adults using the internet/email either once a week (odds ratio (OR) = 0.60, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.49–0.72) or once a month (OR = 0.60, 95% CI = 0.45–0.80) were significantly less likely to be socially isolated than every day users; those using internet/email less than once every three months were significantly more likely to be socially isolated than every day users (OR = 2.87, 95% CI = 1.28–6.40). Once every three months and never users showed no difference in social isolation compared with every day users. Weak associations were found between different online activities and loneliness, and strong associations were found with social isolation. The study updated knowledge of older adults’ internet/email habits, devices used and activities engaged in online. Findings may be important for the design of digital behaviour change interventions in older adults, particularly in groups at risk of or interventions targeting loneliness and/or social isolation.

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“…As a third layer of concentric circles in our HIDECO theoretical framework presented in Figure 1, we highlight the relevance of technological and scientific progress and the historical changes therein for adult development and aging. In particular, technological advances over the last century have tremendously shaped more or less each and every aspect of daily life, including communication opportunities, managing money, access to health care services, and assisting with everyday tasks such as shopping or travel (Berner, Aartsen, & Deeg, 2019; Wright, 2012). As a consequence, technology promises to help and facilitate how people adjust to and compensate for age-related declines (Chen & Chan, 2011; Lindenberger, Lövdén, Schellenbach, Li, & Krüger, 2008).…”

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The role of historical change for adult development and aging: Towards a theoretical framework about the how and the why.

Drewelies¹,

Huxhold²,

Gerstorf³

2019

Psychology and Aging

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The role of historical change for individual functioning and development has long been a central feature of life span psychological and life course sociological theory. However, the mechanisms underlying how historical change in contexts shapes individual functioning and development are less well understood. To better understand such open questions, we present the HIDECO (HIstorical changes in DEvelopmental COntexts) theoretical framework to structure and integrate potential pathways of historical change in (a) population distributions of key resources for successful aging, (b) social and family life, (c) modern technological and scientific progress, and (d) Zeitgeist and norms including societal definitions of social roles, attitudes, and age norms. We then summarize the conceptual perspectives and empirical findings from developed countries for each of these four intertwined layers of contextual embedding. In a last major step, we use the empirical articles compiled in this Special Issue to illustrate the utility of the HIDECO framework. In doing so, we work out a number of key insights gained in this Special Issue and identify some of the open questions that need to be tackled in the future.

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Predictors in starting and stopping Internet use between 2002 and 2012 by Dutch adults 65 years and older

Cited by 19 publications

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Maintaining cognitive function with internet use: a two-country, six-year longitudinal study

Maintaining cognitive function with internet use: a two-country, six-year longitudinal study

Internet use, social isolation and loneliness in older adults

The role of historical change for adult development and aging: Towards a theoretical framework about the how and the why.

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