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Explores the double-edged role of digital technology in later life, showing how it can strengthen connection and participation while also creating barriers that contribute to isolation.

Explains the research behind Shaping Connections' interactive tools and how they help older adults and organisations explore perceived risk, confidence and other barriers to digital inclusion.

Shows how community events and lived experiences can create practical opportunities for older adults to build digital confidence, learn from others and engage with technology in supportive settings.

Explores how older adults develop digital skills through formal learning, lived experience and social support, and why confidence and ongoing learning are central to digital participation.

A practical guide to understanding why digital participation depends on more than skills, including confidence, perceived risk and the social influences that shape how older adults engage with technology.

Explains what connectedness means in later life and how digital technology can both strengthen relationships and participation and contribute to exclusion when confidence, access or support are limited.

Explains how to use the Shaping Connections interactive tools to explore digital confidence, literacy and technology experiences, and to support reflection by older adults and organisations.