The present study tries to focus on the domestication of older adults by the digital use. It explores the integration of digital life in the mundane activities of the older adults. By using purposive sampling and participant observation of 15 respondents of older adults highlights the strategies of co-creation, support from the family members and the training of digitalization to increase the inclusion among them, reduce the social isolation and finally minimize the gap of digital divide. The findings from this paper entails that the digital integration among the older adults is not the only a technical process but it also a process of socio-cultural environment that helps them in navigating the motivation, negotiation and lastly the identity formation. Moreover the study extends the theory of domestication by Silverstone and it makes a mark to signify that it not only a process of adaptive formation of modernity but at the same time it entails that participating in the digital framework among the older adults facilitate a form of empowerment.
Mukherjee et al. (Sun,) studied this question.