title: Technology Access and Use, and Their Associations With Social Engagement Among Older Adults: Do Women and Men Differ?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine how information and communication technology (ICT) access and use are conceptually incorporated in the Successful Aging 2.0 framework.
  
  
  METHODS
  Using data from the 2011 National Health and Aging Trends Study (N = 6,476), we examined how ICT access and use for different purposes are associated with social engagement (i.e., informal and formal social participation) by gender. Weighted logistic regression analyses were performed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Findings revealed that men were more likely to access and use ICT than women. ICT access was positively associated with all types of women's social engagement, but only with men's informal social participation. Information technology (IT) use for health matters was positively associated with formal social participation for women and with informal social participation for men. IT use for personal tasks was negatively associated with formal social participation for older adults. Communication technology use was positively associated with formal and informal social participation for women and men.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study supports the expansion of the successful aging model by incorporating ICT access and use. Further, it assists in the identification of specific technologies that promote active engagement in later life for women and men.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminology, Idaho State University, Pocatello.
authors.forename: Jeehoon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, St. Paul.
authors.forename: Hee Yun
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Work, University of Texas San Antonio.
authors.forename: M Candace
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Christensen
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, St. Paul.
authors.forename: Joseph R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Merighi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D001292:Attitude to Computers; D003142:Communication; D003197:Computer Literacy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D008838:Microcomputers; D012737:Sex Factors; D012919:Social Behavior; D058992:Social Participation
keywords: Formal social participation; Gender; Informal social participation; Information and communication technology (ICT); Successful aging