"Cheryl" > wrote in message
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> On 8/16/2014 3:13 PM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>
>> Out of curiosity, I would however, love to know the percentage of
>> people in the US that do not have online access in this day and age.
>> That's the weakest argument. Janet US
>
>
> "But a 2013 Pew Research Center report found that more than 4 out of 10
> Americans aged 65 and older still do not use the Internet €” compared
> with 15 percent of those over 18; the number offline rose to 62 percent
> among the €œG.I. Generation,€� people older than 77."
>
> <http://www.aarp.org/aarp-foundation/our-work/isolation/info-2014/overcoming-isolation-with-technology.html?intcmp=ILC-DSO-THKSWPS2014-Q24>
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> Cheryl

The place where my dad was living did not allow Internet. They were worried
that the seniors would go online and buy things they didn't need as many had
dementia. My MIL never had a computer and wouldn't be capable of using one.