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NIU nursing faculty describe STELL program teaching tablets and digital literacy to older adults
Summary
Professor Anita Saravanan presented a community-based digital literacy project that placed student "digital coaches" in retirement homes, provided tablets and a handbook, and reported measurable gains in participants' confidence using digital health tools.
Anita Saravanan, a faculty member in Northern Illinois University's School of Nursing, told the Board of Trustees Research and Innovation Committee about a community-based project that taught older adults to use tablets and digital health tools.
Saravanan described the Smart Tablet Education for Healthy Living (STELL) program as a step-by-step, student-supported digital-literacy curriculum for older adults in retirement homes near DeKalb. "When we went there and we listened, I knew and we heard from the older adults that they were left out during the pandemic," Saravanan said, explaining the program's origin and goals.
Program design and results:…
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