Monday, April 21, 2014
Internet use by older Americans can fight depression. Well now I know why I'm so happy all the time.
A new study published in The Journals of Gerontology suggests that Internet use can reduce the probability of depression among retirees who live alone by 33 percent.
The study was authored by Shelia Cotten of Michigan State University, George Ford of the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies, Sherry Ford of the University of Montevallo, and Timothy Hale of Harvard Medical School. They used information gathered during the Health and Retirement Study, a longitudinal survey collecting data from more than 20,000 older and retired Americans.
The authors noted “[r]etired persons are a population of interest, particularly because one mechanism by which Internet use may affect depression is to counter the effects of isolation and loneliness, which are more common among older adults.”
They found “that for retired older adults in the United States, Internet use was found to reduce the probability of a depressed state by about 33 percent.”
Makes sense. After all hanging out here with all of you always brightens my day.
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