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11th Mar 2019LindaH736 commented on:
Is going digital isolating elderly people?This time last year I got very frightened on behalf of a lot of strangers who will never know who I am. Their was a bus strike. The timetables as far as I could tell were only available on the internet. I knew that their would be thousands of elderly and disabled that would have no idea if and when the busses were running. It was especially concerning that were I live half the houses are for the elderly and we live at the top of a hill. The doctors and chemist were at the bottom of one side of the hill and half way down another side of the hill. Elderly and disabled needed the busses to get anywhere. We had a corner shop, with no cashpoint. Our hairdressers closed down because a lot of my neighbours had to find somewhere else to live during the strike. I have since been campaigning both on the over reliance on inaproprate tech and trying to get more seats and shelters. Since the strike I have seen some new electronics in the bus shelters letting customers know about current issues. I fully believe it will continue to be developed and will take many years to sort out. I do some things on the internet but I prefer to use cash. Until they can develop a card that tells me exactly what I have spent and how much I have left, I am not interested. I also try when I get the chance to explain to various companies just how hard itbis to keep up with the sites I do use. I understand tech needs to keep evolving but each time they change someting it is like appearing on masternind and the crystal maze at the same time. Their used to be some older person walking by my window every few minutes. It was hiw they socialised taking their dogs for a walk. About 90% of the elderly dog wakers have disappeared, and the pavements are very empty, hour after hour.