It Environment Model Of The Senior Citizens’ Network Wellbeing

Abstract

Scientific and technological progress as well as information revolution has a significant impact on all aspects of modern society modernization. The social consequences of information and technological development represent a complex set of shifts including changes in the society structure, major changes in the age structure of wellbeing, in the professional and general educational level, and in the public consciousness of the senior citizens. During last decades there has been an increase in the impact of technological modernization on the social processes, the development of which is constantly improving. This is natural because nowadays the society has changed significantly: the role of science in social life is changing; forms and methods which help to change interrelations between different generations are being formed. Rapid revolutionary shifts in the information environment of social life made it possible to lay the ground for a special form of social wellbeing – network. This form of wellbeing is most relevant for the senior citizens for whom the problem of breaking up of many habitual social ties, the loss of sources for positive emotions, health deterioration becomes urgent with age. Therefore, the integration of elderly people into the information environment of network wellbeing is necessary. This, in turn, requires the formation of IT environment model of the senior citizens’ network wellbeing.