Supporting Older Adults in the Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities
Live Event

Supporting Older Adults in the Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities

Thu, Sep 25th, 2025
4:00pm – 5:30pm US Eastern Time

Part of: Aging Summit: Knowledge for Care

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About the Event

Technology rapidly evolves as social media, the digital information landscape, and even online misinformation change. Older adults have the potential to be excluded from contemporary ways of communicating if they are not able to understand and participate online. Still, there are also risks since social media use has been shown to increase anxiety and depression, and being online also requires a heightened awareness of internet scams and misinformation. Because of the benefits and hazards of online usage, understanding how to support older adults using social media is important, including in terms of mental health To address these issues, this seminar will examine the latest research regarding internet usage among older adults, especially around safety concerns, internet addiction, and mental health concerns. We will additionally discuss positive uses of the internet and guidelines that promote safe and positive internet usage.

Live Event This is a live online event. It will be conducted via Zoom Webinar.

Live Event Instructor

Jillian Graves, LMSW, PhD

Jillian Graves, LMSW, PhD

Jillian Graves is an associate professor at Eastern Michigan University in the School of Social Work. She has been a mental health practitioner in psychiatric outpatient, private practice, and juvenile court settings for over 25 years. Dr. Graves has worked with adolescents and adults, utilizing DBT, CBT, psychodynamic interventions, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and solution-focused interventions. Her scholarly work has focused on the experiences of family caregivers, especially siblings, in adolescent and emerging adult development and trauma-reactive violence. Her most recent research has focused on the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of retail workers and the use of relational coordination as a mitigating factor. She is currently the co-director of the IPE Center in the College of Health and Human Services.

Target Audience

This educational activity is intended for an interprofessional audience of healthcare providers, including psychologists, social workers, counselors, MFT's, nurses, medical doctors, and dietitians.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

  1. 1 List three findings from the latest research about the risks and benefits of internet usage (especially social media) among older adults.
  2. 2 Identify three signs that explains the relationship between problematic internet usage and increased anxiety, depression and addictive behavior.
  3. 3 Describe three treatment modalities used to treat problematic internet usage.

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Event Agenda

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