Older Adults & Tech

One-in-six Americans ages 50 and older (17%) say they have ever used a dating site or app.

Adoption of key technologies by those in the oldest age group has grown markedly since about a decade ago.

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Today, 25% of adults ages 65 and older report never going online, compared with much smaller shares of adults under the age of 65.

Millennials have often led older Americans in their adoption and use of technology. But there has also been significant growth in tech adoption in recent years among older generations.

Those 60 and older now spend more than half of their daily leisure time, four hours and 16 minutes, in front of screens.

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Roughly two-thirds of Americans ages 65 and older now get news on a mobile device (67%), a 24-percentage-point increase over the past year.

Nearly two-thirds of those age 65 and older go online and a record share now own smartphones – although many seniors remain relatively divorced from digital life.

Although seniors tend to lag their younger counterparts in tech adoption, more seniors than those 18-29 describe their smartphone as liberating.