Monday, December 22, 2014

DIGITAL DIVIDE - Teens and Elders

"Teens and elders bridge generation gap and digital divide" PBS NewsHour 12/19/2014

Excerpt

JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour):  Finally tonight, building bridges across the generation gap and the technology divide.

The “NewsHour's” Mary Jo Brooks has our report.

COURTNEY KERSHAW:  You got it?

DOROTHY STONE:  Yes.  Yes.

COURTNEY KERSHAW:  You work out for the day?

(LAUGHTER)

MARY JO BROOKS (NewsHour):  Twice a week, 24-year-old Courtney Kershaw and 89-year-old Dorothy Stone head out on errands.  On the day we visited, there was a trip to the nail salon and the grocery store.

Kershaw works for Denver-based concierge business called Capable Living, which provide services for senior citizens who live in their own home.  Fees start at $1,000 a month.  What’s unique is that the employees are all young people, so-called millennials who were born at the end of the last century.

The goal of the company is not only to provide services, but to build bridges between a generation obsessed with smartphones and selfies with one that was raised in an entirely different era.

COURTNEY KERSHAW:  Some of my favorite things were you telling me about when you were my age and how you would fill up the car for 10 cents and go driving around all day.

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