These general findings may give the impression that there is some kind of a prototypical elderly ICT user; however this would simplify the heterogeneity of attitudes, motivational states, and experiences which constitute individuals in old age. In a representative European sample, the following typology of elderly ICT users was derived: (1) the experienced front runners who benefit from a lifelong expertise of computer use, (2) the old age beginners who use the computer less often than once a week, (3) the technologically open-minded non-users that are keen on learning about technology or wish to improve computer skills, and (4) the digitally challenged non-users who are not interested in learning or improving computer skills [5]. Whereas this user typology mainly relies on the factors ‘technology experience’ and ‘current technology use’, we postulate that various other characteristics also promote or hinder the use of ICT at the individual level. Some of the factors that have proven to be important in this context will be described in the following.