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The digital habits that defined youth are transforming old age
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The newly retired, most of whom have been online since middle age, are among the most enthusiastic adopters of digital gadgets.
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The Economist
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Hundreds of teenagers, sometimes strong-armed by their parents, have trooped through the doors of Britain’s National Centre for Gaming Disorders since it opened in 2019. Yet lately the publicly funded clinic has admitted a steady trickle of rather different patients.
Its specialists in video game addiction have so far treated 67 people over the age of 40. The oldest, with an obsession for games on her smartphone, was 72.
