Social support networks and use of TIC in Elderly People’s. A case study in the context of a pandemic, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Abstract

After the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have become indispensable tools to overcome preventive sanitary measures focused in the reduction circulation in public spaces. Nevertheless, the appropriation of these devices weren’t homogeneous in the Argentinean population, according to the INDEC (2020) there are digital gaps with a market generational character.

In this way, this article reports the main results of a research based in the Lujan national university. In it, the uses, perceptions, and meanings of TIC in the daily lives of older people, residents of the Partido de San Miguel, Argentina, and their relationship with support networks in the appropriation process during the pandemic were investigated. For that, sixteen interviews have taken placed in two main focus groups of  seventeen people about 60 years old or older. The main results realize about the self-perception and the net society support received affect in the access and use of the TIC meanly during the Covid-19 pandemic.