ABSTRACT
There are many people who would have you believe that older adults cannot or are not willing to learn to use ICTs. We reject this assertion. We have spent many years working with older adults, helping them overcome the digital divide. Older adults can and will cross the digital divide if they see the benets and relevance of using ICTs in their lives, and they have adequate training to help them learn to use ICTs. They want to learn to use ICTs! The overarching goal of this book is to ultimately help older adults cross the digital divide to become engaged and procient users of ICTs. We focus on older adults in CCRCs as we spent more than 5 years working in these communities to train residents to become procient computer and Internet users, but the information is useful to any group preparing a training program for older adults.
