With over 50 years’ worth of old friends to keep up with and family members scattered across the globe, staying in touch is more important than ever to Boomers. So how do they make the most of the tools available? Canvas8 sat down with Britons aged 50-69 to find out how they stay connected.

It's a widely held belief, stereotype, and even a joke among younger generations that over-50s aren’t great with technology. However, they may be savvier than people believe – in the UK, almost all members of this cohort own a mobile phone, while almost half have a recent model.

Older workers in the US, Europe and Australia are more tech-savvy than you might think. New research has challenged ideas that Boomers suffer from technophobia, instead revealing that they adopt hardware and software as quickly as their younger peers, and even feel less anxious about it.

One in five relationships start online. But while it’s usual to catch 20-somethings swiping on Tinder or sending charms on Happn, senior singletons are quickly catching up. So what is it that the serial daters of the Boomer generation are hoping for when they sign up, log in and upload a pic?