About this Site

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Technology for Australia’s Seniors www.broadbandforseniors.com.au About this website and our ICT services Ania Lian (PhD), Director, Critical Pedagogy and Technology Consultants, Pty. Ltd.

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Technology for Australia’s Seniors About this website This website is an Internet portal with links to interactive multimedia internet-based activities and Internet tutorials suitable for everyone, but especially seniors. This site also is a wonderful resource for teachers and trainers working in different contexts; this includes social workers, youth leaders, carers and aged care professionals.

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Technology for Australia’s Seniors Why did we create this site In 2008, survey conducted by Department of Education and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) as to ICT use inside and outside of educational institutions identified online games and social networking and media sites to be of interest and used frequently by many respondent groups, often outside of educational institutions (see page 9 of the Report).In terms of learning, survey and focus groups' responses identified the following benefits of ICT: Access to information Educational games facilitating independent learning Maths and English Literacy

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Technology for Australia’s Seniors Therefore … This website is a response to the demand expressed by the community leaders, trainers, parents and teachers working in a community context for a quick reference site, with links to online ICT (Information & Communication Technology) activities for all ages, and supporting different needs and interests. This handbook offers links to such resources which, otherwise, are scattered across different websites and, therefore, are difficult to find quickly and when needed.

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Technology for Australia’s Seniors What can you find here This site provides an easy way to navigate through these resources and, where needed, you will find online tutorials illustrating different technical skills and examples of use. All this gives our site a unique purpose and value.All listed resources are in public domain and, therefore, are free to use. Typically they are designed by educational organisations or companies.All tutorials included in here are either in public domain, or were created by the owners of this site.

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Technology for Australia’s Seniors ICT and Dementia – Researches found that the internet-accessible computer activities were even more successful than classic exercises of mental stimulation commonly used with dementia patients. This slide shows a menu with games used by researchers in those studies. Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, October 2006

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Technology for Australia’s Seniors MORE ABOUT OUR SERVICES

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Technology for Australia’s Seniors

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Technology for Australia’s Seniors Technology in Aged Care Examples of Benefits Opportunity to diversify group activities, enabling people to join according to their needs and capacities Enhanced connection with family members Breaking out of social isolation Brain stimulation, Education & Entertainment Opportunity to tap into skills learnt in the past and learning new skills Opportunity to do favourite things which technology makes possible (e.g. listening to or reading e-books in many languages, listening to favourite shows through iTunes) Improvement in precise motor movements

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Technology for Australia’s Seniors Computers are: Patient Allow for storing of huge amounts of information and its quick retrieval on demand Information can be stored for ever Stored resources can be used to engage older people in creative group and individual activities. They connect people Allow for communication which can be direct (voice) and indirect (e-mail, websites, newsletters, podcasts).

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Technology for Australia’s Seniors Our Focus Focus on Aged Care Centres across Australia, with benefits extending to the wider community Our challenge is not to limit the benefits of information sharing to those who are able or already initiated.

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Technology for Australia’s Seniors Technology in Aged Care Our Principles Technology from the person’s perspective. Working with aged care staff in using technology to connect people and to support older people’s interests and wellbeing. Facilitating a discussion forum for carers to exchange experiences in working with technology in aged care contexts.

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Technology for Australia’s Seniors Aged & Community Services AustraliaNational Conference, Nov. 2007 The message: It is not the technology that made the difference, but the therapist who made the link between a person and the potential of technology. Jack York, Keynote presenter The Use of Technology in Nursing Homes, USA (in 29 States)

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Educational Games

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Family Albums

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Jukebox

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Technology for Australia’s Seniors www.broadbandforseniors.com.au On broadbandforseniors.com.au, you will find a number of services developed and created by our Team to enhance contact and sharing of information. Next we outline those services:

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Technology for Australia’s Seniors Resources - Learning about the Internet

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Technology for Australia’s Seniors Database of Residential Aged Care Centres in Australia Development: Central to the functioning of the system is original research into the categories of service actually offered by Aged Care Centres and feedback from the clients. Currently no such research has been done. The project helps to remedy this.

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Technology for Australia’s Seniors Database of Residential Aged Care Centres in Australia Unique Features Flexible searches, taking account of people’s individual requirements. Taxonomy of search categories developed together with aged care managers and their clients. Search flexibility is enhanced through keywords (e.g. “chapel”, or “TV”), linking these with the rest of the search categories.

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Technology for Australia’s Seniors Database of Residential Aged Care Centres in Australia Included are: Information retrieval on the basis of precise information. Summary display of information with links to full information for each centre; including real time bed availability. Links to contact details for each centre and their websites Application forms are available

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Technology for Australia’s Seniors Seniors & Community Calendars of Events www.seniorseventscalendar.com.au AND www.communityeventscalendar.com.au The Calendars offer a single, Australia-wide portal for discovery of events relevant to members of our community. The Calendars allow any and every organisation in Australia to insert, update and manage information about their own events, directly online. In this way: The Calendars offer a website presence even to the least resourced organisations.

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Technology for Australia’s Seniors Broadband for Seniors Enjoy – We do