The Silver Economy: Tech sector taps surge of connected boomers - FT.com

After his mother died, Stuart Arnott worried about how his elderly father would cope living on his own in Fife more than 450 miles away from the family in London. So he created an app to allow family to post photos, messages and daily updates on a tablet computer – in effect, a digital window into the family’s life.

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