Les nouvelles technologies au service des personnes âgées : entre promesses et interrogations - Une revue de questions

Based on a literature review, this article proposes to discuss the psychosocial stakes dependent for the use of new technologies for the elderly. This reveals that if these devices have undeniable assets which can contribute to improve comfort and with the quality of life of the elders, he does not remain about it less than the fast development of these technologies also cause a series of interrogations relating to the maintenance of the psychic and social integrity of these users. These systems can thus cause a new form of dependence (with the technical assistance) and accentuate - paradoxically - the stigmatization of people by the construction of a new profile: “the technically assisted elders”.