Factors Influencing the Acceptance of Technology by Older People: How the elderly in Brazil feel about using electronics.

This article aims to analyze the acceptance of technology by the elderly as well as the variables that influence the acceptance and insertion of technological devices into everyday life. It is a transversal, qualitative, quantitative, and analytical study. The procedures of data collection included a socioeconomic questionnaire, an instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) scale, an acceptance of technologies scale, and a questionnaire focusing on the factors that influence the use of technologies.

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