Cyber-Seniors: Connecting Generations

Cyber-Seniors is a humorous and heart-warming feature-length documentary about the ever increasing generation gap. The documentary focusses of a group of seniors who take their first steps into cyber-space under the guidance of a group of teenage mentors. 

The film provides viewers with a thought-provoking look at a determined group of men and women who are enriched by digitally re-connecting with their families and each other.

The idea for the Cyber-Seniors documentary came from a high school project that was launched by two sisters, Macaulee and Kascha Cassaday. They had witnessed firsthand how learning to use the internet had transformed their grandparents’ lives.

After learning some basic skills, their grandparents were in touch several times a week by email, Facebook and even Skype. The internet was instrumental in keeping their family connected despite busy schedules and living in different cities.

The sisters were inspired and developed a training manual and recruited their friends to visit a local aged care home twice a week to teach interested seniors how to use the internet. Their older sister, Saffron Cassaday began filming some of the early Cyber-Senior sessions and started to see a story emerge.

The Cyber-Seniors documentary is an inspiring example of the wonderful things that can happen when generation gaps are bridged, and new ways of connecting are explored.

Watch the trailer for Cyber-Seniors below:

The Cyber-Seniors documentary is available here.