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Ways Out Of Social Isolation For Older People In The Context Of New Media

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The introduction briefly describes the connection between digital exclusion and possible social isolation of older people, outlines the objective of the research-practice project CONNECT-ED and gives a short overview of the contents of the individual book chapters.

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  1. Institute for Interdisciplinary Gender Research and Diversity, Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

    Britta Thege & Juliane Köchling-Farahwaran

  2. Department of Social Work and Health, Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Kiel, Germany

    Sonja Börm & Stephan Dettmers

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Thege, B., Köchling-Farahwaran, J., Börm, S., Dettmers, S. (2021). Introduction. In: Ways Out Of Social Isolation For Older People In The Context Of New Media. Springer, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-35581-4_1

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