The European Silver Paper1 recommends facilitating and enhancing social activity in older persons, to support voluntary initiatives, and to prevent social exclusion, without mentioning the methods and technologies to be implemented. Nowadays, establishing and maintaining social contacts depends heavily on the use of mobile phones and Internet2-4. In order to use this technology efficiently aging involved changes of peoples’ physical, perceptual and cognitive abilities have to be considered in the design of communication technology. This comment focuses on agerelated changes of three central cognitive abilities; attention, memory, and language comprehension, and provides recommendations for technology design.
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