Elderly LGBTQ individuals struggle to find connection in today’s increasingly isolated world. Our sponsor, OutstandingLife, has created an online senior program to help address this issue. The goal of our project was to help address issues of digital literacy and engagement within the platform. We conducted board member interviews, a community member focus group, and an online heuristic assessment. To cultivate a healthy online program, our research revealed that the organization suffers from a lack of website updates, a low sense of community, and a need for member education. To address these challenges, we developed a series of online resources and made recommendations to OutstandingLife for increasing community support and responsibly growing the organization.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Andres, Christian
• Thatcher, Tanner
• Edmondson, Ethan

Subject

• Community
• Inclusion
• Learning
• Well-Being
• Health

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 122000
• E-project-042924-113322

Keyword

• OutstandingLife
• LGBTQ
• Community
• Digital Literacy
• Virtual

Advisor

• Kurlanska, Courtney Brooke

Year

• 2024

Center

• Worcester Community Project Center (Massachusetts) - IQP

Sponsor

• OutstandingLife

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 10 - Reducing Inequality

Date created

• 2024-04-29

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Source

• E-project-042924-113322

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2024-05-20