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ICT as a base for quality Silver Economy

Since world’s population is aging there have been numerus articles, book and researches conducted on that theme connected with quality of life, expectations and realistic possibilities. Additional point in favour of considering elderly population as unresearched economy or market is that for the first time, since 2018., we have more people over 64 than children younger than 5 years. Elder people today are of course different than previous generations of pensioners. Especially that comes important while talking about technology usage. On the other hand, information and communication technology has never been more affordable and accessible. Software solutions became our everyday passion and mobile devices last thing we check before falling to sleep. Also, information in general is more important and easier to get and definitely resourceful for different kind of analysis. Main aim of paper is to research ICT options and solutions for population gathered in term Silver Economy (elderly in our societies). Services and applications which can make their life easier and better will be considered together with pensioners preparation to use ICT. Mainly analysing statistical data, paper will use small questioner and interview in order to check situation in local environment. Finally, comparison will be made among elder population ICT usage in Japan, USA, EU and Croatia.

e-services, internet Silver Economy, life quality, digital literacy

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