Edukacja informatyczna seniorów poprawą komfortu życia

The aim of the article is to draw attention to the value of seniors' IT education as a factor increasing quality of their lives. Both acquiring and increasing senior's computer and above all Internet skills are significant in case of social relations. The author draws attention to the contradiction between huge technological progress, evolution of products and services and negligence of education sphere toward conscious and comfortable usage of these goods. He also underlines significance of seniors' IT education as a great challenge facing the educational system, especially in the era of the ageing society. Addition- ally, the author draws attention to the seniors' lifestyles and their need to belong to social groups which is now possible thanks to the Internet. He also points to the correlation between seniors' loneliness and the need to establish contacts online which prevent social exclusion mitigating the feeling of rejection and loneliness.