Positive Aging And Network

Nowadays, more and more people are enjoying the convenience of information societywith the popularization and development of the internet. But, there is a special group that isexcluded from the information world for kinds of reasons—the elderly people. Only aminority of them know about the internet and have made use of it, most of the elderly peopleare neglected in a world whose audience objectives are mainly the youths. We should knowthat the internet era is not so perfect without the participation of the aged. They too have theright to share the achievements of the technology. Thus, it’s important to make analysis of theelderly people’s attitudes and using tendency towards the internet, which is helpful for themedia to find better ways for the aged. As the graying society is coming, policies are badlyneeded to answer the impacts. Positive aging means to improve the elderly people’s life, thosepeople should be satisfied both psychologically and materially. And it comes down to thefunction of the internet in pushing forward the positive aging. The aged group is anopportunity as well as challenge for the information time, it reminds us that we sholud makegood use of the blank market. The media should also consider what they can do for the elderlypeople, what enables them to enjoy the internet conveniently. The conclusion of the paper isbased on one main research methods. The elderly people living in urban areas above60aredivided into five age brackets, then the survey is carried on by random sampling under thefollowing requirements: different income level, different educational level and different career.Finally by statistical software, this paper wants to find the problems of the aged in using theinternet in Hebei province and the measures. Through survey of the elderly people’s opinionsand needs towards the internet, this paper tries to find out what the network media should doto meet the elderly people’s demands. By analysis of the problems of the aged in Hebeiprovince in using the internet, it is found that everyone should work hard in order to build apositve graying society. And people should never neglect the internet, we must make goodadvantages of the special media.The network media could also play an active role in the aged society. It can reduce the psychological problems among the elderly group, add pleasures to their life and expand theircircle of friends. The network media could also reduce the elderly people’s passive emotions,make them happy in their later years, which is a vivid manifestation in positive aging society.As the number of the aged citizens is smaller than the young people, the troubles the agedface in surfing the internet pose a challenge to the network media. The netmedia shoulddevelop more hardwares and softwares for the aged group, enriching their teleliving. At thesame time, the netmedia should try to meet the aged people’ s personalized needs, and fightfor bigger share of the market. Only by this approach could the netmedia improve itself andaccelerate the progress of positive aging.