| Daniele Zaccaria, PhD Research Fellow, Centre of Competence on Ageing, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) Webpage |
Daniele Zaccaria is a sociologist and currently works as a researcher at the Centre of Competence on Ageing, Department of Business Economics, Health and Social Care at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI).
His research interests include the study of the well-being of older people, the role of everyday life technologies in relation to loneliness and social isolation, digital skills of older workers, and methodologies for surveying of older people. His research approach is mainly quantitative, but he also appreciates collaborating with colleagues who adopt qualitative methods. Currently, he is involved in two ongoing research projects: Swiss Centenarian Study (SWISS100) and ACTIVE ageing in changing societies. Older people’s social and digital resources in pandemic and postpandemic Italy (ACTIVE.IT).
Recent publications
Casanova, G., Zaccaria, D., Rolandi, E., & Guaita, A. (2021). The Effect of Information and Communication Technology and Social Networking Site Use on Older People’s Well-Being in Relation to Loneliness: Review of Experimental Studies. Journal of medical Internet research, 23(3), e23588.
Melis, G., Sala, E., & Zaccaria, D. (2021). Remote recruiting and video-interviewing older people: a research note on a qualitative case study carried out in the first Covid-19 Red Zone in Europe. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 1-7.
Zaccaria, D., Guaita, A., Vaccaro, R., Casanova, G., Abbondanza, S., Pettinato, L., Cerati, G., Rolandi, E., & Sala, E. (2020). Assessing the impact of Social Networking Site use on older people’s loneliness and social isolation. A randomized controlled trial: The Aging in a Networked Society-Social Experiment Study (ANS-SE). Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 19, 100615. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conctc.2020.100615.