Wisdom and Successful Aging: Developing a Social Media Tool for the Benefit of Society

Population aging has become one of the most significant social transformations in this century. The proliferation of social media provides important opportunities for older people to access and share useful information, actively engage with an online social life, and maintain higher levels of cognitive function. Research suggests that wisdom grows over one's life span, so it is also possible to use social media to leverage older people's wisdom for the benefit of society. In this study, a new WordPress plugin, which can be installed on various WordPress websites, will be developed to provide a new avenue for older people to share their wisdom, and an opportunity for researchers to acquire wisdom-based data from older people. Text analysis will be used to mine the data. This approach is likely to make aging more positive, potentially increasing the life satisfaction of older people.