Tagged: Old age

What is Financial Abuse? www.loveisrespect.org

 

Enough Abuse Campaign
Enough Abuse Campaign (Photo credit: MDGovpics)

What is Financial Abuse? www.loveisrespect.org. I did not know about financial abuse until today. I read about it on another article and the definition they gave I didn’t agree with. So I did some other research and came up with this article. Interesting that people do this to each other.

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Teaching My Silver Surfers! (via Technology Information)

Senior Citizens Find That New Ulm, Minnesota, ...
Image by The U.S. National Archives via Flickr

Is this a touching thing to do? This man obviously values his elders and doesn’t consider the effort wasted. Every life is valuable.

Since I teach computers predominantly to seniors, my “Silver Surfers”, I am in a unique position to observe the challenges they face adjusting to the technology age. I have observed this with their use of cell phones, DVD players, TIVO, but predominantly with computers. In so many ways they are left behind and are running to catch up. They struggle to acquire basic computer skills. Moving and clicking a mouse while trying to assimilate what is ha … Read More

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