EngAGE likes stories of elders embracing technology! After resisting learning how to use her computer, now, “at 73, [Shirley] Barrowclough has not only mastered email and Google searches. She has found and watched [her daughter’s] presentations on YouTube, recently used her laptop to create a booklet of memorabilia and old photos for her mother-in-law’s 100th birthday, and has set her sights on an iPad.” Her facility with technology is thanks to the Elder Technology Assistance Group (ETAG), a non-profit group of young volunteers who provide free tutoring to seniors on everything from the basics of opening a Word document to storing photos on an iPad. Read more here.
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