The objective of the NOSTALGIA BITS
project was to develop an ICT solution
to increase social interaction between
elderly people and their families. The
NOSTALGIA BITS project aims to provide
a platform for the elderly and their
families for capturing, digitally archiving,
and sharing their memories encapsulated
in letters, newspaper clippings,
postcards, photos, and other artifacts.
The artifacts can be uploaded to a dedicated
website, and thereby become both
a means for connecting the elderly with
members of their own generation and a
significant resource for use by subsequent
generations.
The market potential is huge and continuously
growing: at this point close
to 60 million people over 50 regularly
access the internet in Europe, and this
number is steadily increasing. The number
one target market is people over 50
using the internet, however, all internet
users interested in the past and/or in
their (grand)parents can be taken into
account as secondary and tertiary target
groups, just like those elderly who
have no affinity to digital media but have
helping hands from the younger generations
around them.

http://www.aal-europe.eu/projects/nostalgia-bits/

• Western Europe and North America

• Older persons

The objective of the NOSTALGIA BITS project was to develop an ICT solution to increase social interaction between elderly people and their families. The NOSTALGIA BITS project aims to provide a platform for the elderly and their families for capturing, digitally archiving, and sharing their memories encapsulated in letters, newspaper clippings, postcards, photos, and other artifacts. The artifacts can be uploaded to a dedicated website, and thereby become both a means for connecting the elderly with members of their own generation and a significant resource for use by subsequent generations.