[Air-L] request for studies concerning Senior's use of the net and Happy New Year

[Peter Timusk]

happy new year, now or when you celebrate this.

I am not asking you to do my work and hopefully this is sharing that  
will help others.

I am trying to find studies concerning senior's use of the Internet.  
I am doing this for my new job in the information society statistics  
section of Statistics Canada.

I have read a lot about e-inclusion and so forth but am really  
looking for the opposite about seniors.

One, in terms predicting who uses the net, age is inversely related.  
The older you are the less likely you are to surf the net. Of course  
this generation gap may be closing. Has anyone found it closed?

I am interested in any studies using logistic regression models  
predicting Internet use/access or even better a more refined  
definition of use with age as one predictor variable.

My employer has published a number of studies like this.

Also we know now that use/access of the net is not where it stops, so  
I am interested in other studies looking at broadening this idea of  
access or use as long as these involve seniors and preferably are  
statistical studies. I would like to look for comparable studies in  
term of hours on line, or intensity of use, or activities online.

Somethings that look possible are "More seniors use pharmacies online  
than other age groups" but is there anything else out there. Lots of  
game playing?

Some seniors it was found in the past spent long hours online and the  
explanation suggested was that they had free time.

We want to learn more about these seniors who use the net a lot.

Or can you simply suggest alternative keywords for "intensity of  
internet use" so I can better search journals and google scholar.