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When older adults feel pressured to adapt to their family's digital preferences

My adult children handle everything online and expect me to do the same but my husband and I prefer calling or meeting in person and it's creating this weird tension where we feel like we're disappointing them by not adapting faster.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Multiple generations are negotiating the pace of technological adaptation, with love and frustration becoming entangled around questions of capability and effort.

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