Older people have fading memories, earlier when they had people they would keep recollecting and reselling the stories . Now that option does not exist.
My mom did not use a smartphone as she thought it would be complicated, but my daughter convinced my mom to use it to communicate with her .
She discovered back one friend and eventually most of her schoolmates.
Last 4 years, she now has daily digital routines. Attended a reunion .
She has started writing again after decades.
Comments on every social post in details, of her friends and family.
Takes photos and shares them
This is the best possible outcome which I could have imagined
Older people have fading memories, earlier when they had people they would keep recollecting and reselling the stories . Now that option does not exist.
My mom did not use a smartphone as she thought it would be complicated, but my daughter convinced my mom to use it to communicate with her .
She discovered back one friend and eventually most of her schoolmates.
Last 4 years, she now has daily digital routines. Attended a reunion .
She has started writing again after decades. Comments on every social post in details, of her friends and family.
Takes photos and shares them
This is the best possible outcome which I could have imagined
Key sentence:
> It is unclear whether the technology staves off mental decline, or whether people with better cognitive skills simply use them more.