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"The older generation of these moments is the most privileged because he has experienced one of the most important changes in regard to new technologies is concerned."

This has been said this morning the professor of linguistics at the University of Barcelona, Sebastia Serrano, who has offered this morning a conference on "Communication and New Technologies", framed within the program of activities organized by La Caixa Foundation for older people the municipality.

The Deputy Mayor for Social Welfare Policy and Equality, María del Carmen Pelegrin, who has been responsible for chairing the conference, stressed that the City Council of Murcia is being undertaken significant actions to bring the town's older people to New Technologies.

Pelegrin stated that the close collaboration that has been running since 2004 with the Fundación La Caixa has allowed in "to our elders in the new technologies in an easy and effective, through courses, workshops and other actions to them. "

Serrano pointed out that older people have seen the birth of what was the first of the technology, television, and is now in a time of continuing proliferation of these important tools of communication.

Likewise it is essential to keeping the body, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Barcelona has also said that it is essential to maintaining a person's mental.

Hence it has suggested that attention is synonymous with an active brain and, therefore, a way to delay the neuronal degeneration.

The selection of information is another aspect to consider, as has been suggested as Sebastia Serrano, information comes to generating excessive anxiety and a lot of noise in the brain, and that future generations will see.

On this point, Serrano also pointed out as striking fact that the information accumulated in 2000 has doubled today, when there have been stages of life that have gone through about 150 years for the information expand in this important ratio.

The conference also has benefited from the presence of business area director of Fundación La Caixa, Gerardo Cuartero.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia