Social integration through communication with family and friends can fulfill human’s desires of being cherished and respected. Such communications are very important for the elderly people, especially for those who have retired. Online social communities can help with this and provide positive effect on elderly people. But the elderly are quite reluctant to work with new technologies and hence, researchers have tried to implement specially designed social media application in easy user-interface devices for the elderly. In this paper, we conduct a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method to collect and review studies to understand the different user-interaction devices used for the elderly to promote social connection. 33 literature papers were identified within the years 2013–2019 following a review procedure, which presents research on online social communities for elders. The papers are analyzed and classified further to understand the current state-of-the-art focus. This study further offers related discussion and conclusions.

通过与家人和朋友的沟通，社会融合可以满足人们的珍惜和尊重的愿望。这样的交流对老年人，特别是对退休人员来说，非常重要。在线社交社区可以为此提供帮助，并为老年人带来积极影响。但是，老年人非常不愿意使用新技术，因此，研究人员试图在易于使用的老年人界面设备中实施专门设计的社交媒体应用程序。在本文中，我们进行了系统文献综述（SLR）方法，以收集和回顾研究，以了解用于老年人的各种用户互动设备，以促进社会联系。按照审查程序，在2013-2019年期间确定了33篇文献论文，其中介绍了针对老年人的在线社交社区的研究。对论文进行了分析和分类，以了解当前的最新重点。这项研究进一步提供了相关的讨论和结论。