Tablets Bringing Youth and Elders Together

If you see a surge in TikTok videos featuring Elders coming out of the Kivalliq, it just might be from a digital literacy program starting up in February.

“We’ve all experienced the isolation and loneliness over the past couple of years,” said Nicole Perry, director of national programs with HelpAge Canada. “This is one of the most accessible ways to help combat that.”

The Pulaarvik Kablu Friendship Centre identified the need ­­– building Elders’ skills with phones and tablets to keep them connected to an increasingly online world – and Help Age Canada has partnered with Pinnguaq to make the Connected Elders program a reality.

The organization has hired and trained nearly two dozen youth to deliver the program and teach Elders in each Kivalliq community themselves, with weekly drop-in sessions beginning in February.

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