[medinformatics] Survey: Few Older Seniors Surf the Net for Health Info

[Medical Informatics News]

e-health and the Elderly: How Seniors Use the Internet for Health is a new national
survey of older Americans from the Kaiser Family Foundation.*The
survey*found that as the Internet becomes an increasingly important resource for informing decisions about
health and health care options, less than a third of seniors, aged 65 years and older, have ever gone online, but
that more than two-thirds of younger seniors, those aged 50-64 years, have done so.*

The differences indicate that online resources for health information may soon play a much larger role among older
Americans. Twenty-one percent of seniors have gone online to look for health information compared to 53% of 50-64
year-olds; 8% of seniors get “a lot” of health information online compared to 24% of 50-64 year-olds; the Internet is
5th on a list of media sources of health information for seniors compared to first among 50-64 year-olds; and 26% of
seniors trust the Internet “a lot” or “some” to provide accurate health information, compared to 58% of 50-64
year-olds.*


See the entire report
here.



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