Effects of mobile Internet use on loneliness among older adults: Health status as a possible moderator?
Objective: Mobile Internet use has profoundly affected people's traditional ways of living in the modern era. The elderly are a particular group of individuals. Although older people are less able to learn to use new things, the simplicity of mobile Internet use has lowered the "threshold" of mobile...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice (2198-1833) Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 259 - 268 |
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