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Why your aging parents have trouble using their phone

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Debaleena Chattopadhyay is a researcher at the University of Illinois Chicago who studies how older adults interact with computers.

She says the over-65 population is expected to grow from 60 million today to 82 million by 2050 .

The more tech companies want to step boldly into the future, but it's true with age, our eyesight and hearing get worse.

Innovative features, updated apps, and entirely new products are how tech companies grow and make money.

They're also what older adults have trouble metabolizing.

Tech companies know what they're facing here.

Tech industry is mostly young, fit, busy gadgeteers building products for younger users.

My mom recently bought an Apple Watch , which provides shareable location tracking and fall monitoring.

She's healthy, but she's in her 80s , and I live hundreds of miles away.

I wasn't itching to have surveillance data on my mom, but I didn't know what else to do.