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When families struggle to bridge digital communication gaps across generations

Our elderly parents refuse to use video calls or smartphones to stay in touch and my siblings and I are split between pushing them to adapt and accommodating their preferences but it's making family communication really difficult.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Three generations are trying to maintain connection while operating from fundamentally different assumptions about how communication should work.

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