Personal technology can provide easy access to family and friends, information and entertainment, but could it save your life? Perhaps.

In a new publication from the University of Luxembourg (Western Europe), Dr Anja Leist outlines the potential that social media has for improving the health of older adults.

 “For me, it was interesting to learn that there is evidence for a large potential of social media in clinical practice. Older adults can use social media to access health-related information and engage in patient-to-patient or patient-doctor conversations. There are many online forums where people in difficult life situations, such as informal caregivers of a spouse with dementia or individuals with depression, can exchange thoughts as well as receive and provide social support. Other positive consequences are that lonely older adults can overcome loneliness through contact to family and friends and other users with similar interests “, says Dr Leist.”

And if that wasn’t enough, take a look at this video from YouTube.

A man is taking pictures with his iPad at a girls softball tournament at the University of Iowa when a foul ball flies back and hits the device. It’s remarkable that neither he nor the iPad sustained any injuries.

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