{"id":21335,"date":"2019-05-14T15:30:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T15:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=21335"},"modified":"2019-07-30T17:37:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T17:37:07","slug":"the-year-of-connected-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/business\/innovation-business\/the-year-of-connected-seniors\/","title":{"rendered":"The year of connected seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech adoption among senior US citizens is higher than ever.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Despite that\u00a0older Americans still trail the overall adult population in terms of tech usage, the digital gap is no longer as pronounced as it used to be.<\/p>\n<p>[ihc-hide-content ihc_mb_type=&#8221;show&#8221; ihc_mb_who=&#8221;4,3,5,6&#8243; ihc_mb_template=&#8221;3&#8243; ]<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pew Research Center<\/a>, technology adoption of Americans aged 65 and older is on the rise and higher than ever, as in 2018, 66% of U.S. seniors\u00a0used the internet regularly, up from just 14% in 2000, marking last year as the biggest one for technology adoption among senior U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The U.S. Census Bureau<\/a> reports that\u00a0the number of Americans aged 65 and older exceeded 50 million for the first time in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/9648\/tech-adoption-by-seniors\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21336\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/kkk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/kkk-200x143.jpg 200w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/kkk-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/kkk-400x285.jpg 400w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/kkk-500x356.jpg 500w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/kkk-600x428.jpg 600w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/kkk-700x499.jpg 700w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/kkk-768x547.jpg 768w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/kkk-800x570.jpg 800w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/kkk.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/ihc-hide-content]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech adoption among senior US citizens is higher than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":21337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,46],"tags":[99,1385,394,909,2081],"class_list":["post-21335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-innovation-business","tag-ceo","tag-ceo-northam","tag-digital-gap","tag-seniors","tag-technology-adoption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22525,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21335\/revisions\/22525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}