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ELDERLY IN RUSSIA: BETWEEN MEDICINE, CONSUMPTION AND LIFE-LONG EDUCATION
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Situation of aging and appearance of the 1st generation of elderly who prefer other consumer practices than medical services reflects in the article. The article highlights the results of our study which deals with the elderly, their information practices in Russia and trend of its utilization. The main goal of our quality research on a base 22 deep interviews was to evaluate the need of elderly computer users to continue them elaboration. The analysis of computer literacy training programs for elderly people led us to the conclusion that are not oriented as this goal and so on to the conclusion to e-government services. Such training is likely become a new prestigious sort of leisure for elderly, it corresponds to the logic of the “consumer society”. We continue the researches which subject wrote in the paper in SGEM-14.
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