Reflections on the old age in the context of the challenges of the digital age | Exlibris Social Gerontology Journal
Published : 2022-11-23

Reflections on the old age in the context of the challenges of the digital age

Elżbieta Kowalska-Dubas

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7803-3369

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The author tries to look at the old human age located in the currently developing digital age, pointing to its connection with the human condition as homo sapiens. Therefore, she takes up selected threads of reflection focused on the relationship between man and machine, technology (homo techniques), and his situation in the digital age (homo sapiens digital). The article describes old age in the digital age from the perspective of IT as a value and threat. It points to the social status in the digital age caused by the presence of IT, which causes different individual attitudes toward digital civilization. It shows old age as a topic of life and a „problem” of modern man, exacerbated by difficulties in functioning with new technologies in reality. The text contains reflections related to the humanistic view of the (elderly) human being, considering educational aspects.

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old age, digital age, new technologies, challenges, education, learning



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Kowalska-Dubas, E. (2022). Reflections on the old age in the context of the challenges of the digital age. Exlibris Social Gerontology Journal, 21(2), 22–33. Retrieved from https://ojs.wsb.edu.pl/index.php/bgs/article/view/847

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