{"id":78016,"date":"2025-07-29T20:19:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78016"},"modified":"2025-07-29T20:19:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:19:49","slug":"millions-of-elderly-brits-without-a-smartphone-or-internet-getting-left-behind-in-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/29\/millions-of-elderly-brits-without-a-smartphone-or-internet-getting-left-behind-in-digital-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of elderly Brits without a smartphone or internet getting &#8216;left behind&#8217; in digital age"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1JwNyK.img?w=534&amp;h=360&amp;m=6&amp;x=211&amp;y=67&amp;s=50&amp;d=50\" alt=\"Almost one in five - or 2.4 million - older people have limited use of the internet and use it less than once a month or not at all, according to Age UK research (stock image)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Millions of elderly Britons without a smartphone or access to the internet are being \u2018left behind\u2019 by an increasingly digital world, new research warns.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/millions-of-elderly-brits-without-a-smartphone-or-internet-getting-left-behind-in-digital-age\/ar-AA1JwGAN?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=644f6b98d6004cdeb16e77590b34a0de&amp;ei=15\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Millions of elderly Britons without a smartphone or access to the internet are being \u2018left behind\u2019 by an increasingly digital world, new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Denmark-elderly.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78017,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78016\/revisions\/78017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}