Given the potential of Internet use in everyday life, there is an
urgent need to examine the means to enable older adults to embrace
the information age. The purpose of this paper is to discuss
how various factors intertwine to affect Chinese older adults’ decisions
to adopt the Internet by applying the expanded technology
acceptance model (TAM). The study used four predictors as the
core of the model: Perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of
use (PEU), subjective norm (SN), and facilitating conditions (FC).
Gender and age were included in the proposed model as factors
to moderate the effect of two key TAM factors (PU and PEU) on
adoption behaviors (see Figs. 1 and 2 for the research framework).