Assessing the level of adoption of a social network system for older adultstitled item

The increase in the proportion of older adults (OAs) across the globe is an open secret and requires meeting the expectations of this cohort. Social inclusion and wellbeing are the most important and unmet needs of this age group. Software systems targeting these aspects have the potential to alleviate the problem, but the long-term uptake by OAs is low. The broader objective of our research is to extract, devise and assess the recommendations for developing and evaluating software applications especially social network systems (SNSs) for OAs. This supports the social and digital inclusion augmented with the wellbeing of OAs via technology by providing a natural form of interaction while catering for key concerns of this century like privacy.