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The World Health Organization indicates that the number of the elderly population is growing worldwide, with an accelerated aging of the population and an increase in life expectancy, so it is important to consider the incorporation of activities that allow Improve their physical and mental health. The objective of the article is to present the way of thinking of seniors by incorporating them into the current technological society through a process of teaching ICT, feelings, moods and what they expected before taking the course of basic computing. The results show that the participants were very motivated, they felt very confident, although with a little fear of facing the new technologies. With the passing of the weeks a change in them was noticed, greater security, and also the feeling of belonging to a group, stated that they have continued to use computers, some of them still feel insecure to carry out paperwork via the internet, but comment that They can communicate more easily with their friends and family with respect to ICT issues, and they feel part of this digital world that they once saw alien and distant.
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Sevilla, M., Salgado, C., Manrique, E., Ramírez, H.B., Alanís, A. (2018). Information and Communication Technologies, and the Positive Mental Health in the Seniors. In: Chen, YW., Tanaka, S., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2017. KES-InMed 2018 2017. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 71. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59397-5_3
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