Teller Report

Senior Geeks: Linked by the console

11/28/2019, 6:34:44 PM

70 years and always a joystick in the hands: for Jean-Claude and Maria, the video game is a way to avoid isolation. The Silver Geek association offers seniors to break the digital divide.


The two septuagenarians have been competing for several months and have already won departmental and regional titles. Today they are still fighting for a national title. A real structure accompanies them: the association, the relatives and supporters, as well as a coach, follow their movements. A discovery for Jean-Claude, 76 years old and competitor in the soul, who illustrated at the Paris Games Week in front of a boiling crowd: "I joined immediately because it was organized by young people (... ) we do great things.

Brigitte Tondusson, president of the association, she sees the way to familiarize seniors with digital in general: "We wanted to do it in a different way from what exists, go on fun.All employees ensure good walk of the project, even the last arrivals, like Loïc Froger in civic service, he improvised coach e-sport and gives his tips video games to the oldest: "It is true that we live in a society where we are partitioned by age group, and going to meet older people, it was really very intense. "

In 2017, the association Little Brothers of the Poor revealed that more than 900,000 seniors lived isolated in France, a sad finding that try to stem Silver Geek in its own way.