Research on Older Adults and Broadband, Tech and Online Use:

• Research on Older Adults and Broadband, Tech and Online Use: Internet, Broadband Fact Sheet, Pew Research Center, November 13, 2024
  https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/internet-broadband/

• Dating at 50 and Up: Older American’s Experiences With Online Dating, Pew Research Center, July 17, 2023
  https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/07/17/dating-at-50-and-up-older-americans-experiences-with-online-dating/

• Share of Those 65 and Older Who Are Tech Users Has Grown in the Past Decade, Pew Research Center, January 13, 2022
  https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/01/13/share-of-those-65-and-older-who-are-tech-users-has-grown-in-the-past-decade/

• New NTIA Data Show 13 Million More Internet Users in the U.S. in 2023 than 2021, NTIA Publication, 6/6/24
  https://www.ntia.gov/blog/2024/new-ntia-data-show-13-million-more-internet-users-us-2023-2021

• Mobile Technology and Home Broadband 2021, Pew Research Center, 6/3/21
  https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/06/03/mobile-technology-and-home-broadband-2021/

• American’s Internet Access: 2000 – 2015, Pew Research, June 2015
  http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/06/26/americans-internet-access-2000-2015/

• FCC:  Broadband Adoption and Use in America, John B. Horrigan, February 2010
  https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-296442A1.pdf

• Barriers to Broadband Adoption, Charles Davidson and Michael Santorelli, October 2009
  http://static1.squarespace.com/static/675b15c1cf72f7446b787f8d/675b239951a512318e87155c/675b239351a512318e87147d/1734026131468/DepressionOct152009.pdf?format=original

• National Minority Broadband Adoption: Comparative Trends in Adoption, Acceptance and Use, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, John P Gant, PhD, Nicol E. Turner-Lee, PhD, Yink Li, PhD, Joseph S. Miller, Esq. February 2010.

• For vast majority of seniors who own one, a smartphone equals ‘freedom’, Pew Research, April 2015
  http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/29/seniors-smartphones/

• Older Adults and Technology Use, Pew Research, April 2015
  http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/04/03/older-adults-and-technology-use/

• Internet Use and Depression Among the Elderly, Phoenix Center Chief Economist Dr. George S. Ford, October 15, 2009
  http://static1.squarespace.com/static/675b15c1cf72f7446b787f8d/675b239951a512318e87155c/675b239351a512318e87147d/1734026131468/DepressionOct152009.pdf?format=original

• First-time Internet users find boost in brain function after just one week, UCLA Study, October 19, 2009
  http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/first-time-internet-users-find-111275.aspx