Barriers to the Social Adaptation of Vietnamese Elderly People to Digital Transformation: A Sociological Analysis
The aging of Vietnam’s population, together with the process of national digital transformation, has forced older people to change in order to adapt more successfully to significant social changes. Relying on the resources of the Main Statistical Office, the National Committee for the Elderly of Vietnam and the results of secondary research, the authors of the article use the SWOT methodology for a comprehensive analysis of the social adaptation of the Vietnamese elderly population to the conditions of digital transformation. It has been established that the feminization of the older generation, the increase in the number of centenarians, old people living in rural areas, leads to the fact that they face more barriers, unfavorable conditions of digitalization than older people in other groups. With the help of SWOT analysis, a model of a combination of strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and risks for the social adaptation of elderly Vietnamese is constructed, practical recommendations based on the results of sociological analysis are proposed.