Retirement Resources

Top 7 Ways To Master Google Search: Caregiver Cheat Sheet

Google is the gateway to all the internet has to offer, for about 75% of all searchers, but it can only find what you tell it to find. If you don’t ask Google the right question, you aren’t going to get the answer you need. If you often find yourself wondering why you can’t find…

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Caregiver Cheat Sheet: Virtual Assistants, Smart Speakers And You

Have you seen the TV commercials for the gadget that lets you just shout into the air “Send flowers to Jane” and somehow flowers get ordered? Or the little girl who somehow ordered herself a giant dollhouse and four pounds of cookies from Amazon? For decades, science fiction has prepared us for a machine that…

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Caregiver Cheat Sheet: Internet Access For Seniors

The Internet connects us to so many things today that we can’t live without: family, friends, finances, and even fun. It’s very hard to live an analog life anymore, because so many services and institutions are only (or mostly) accessible digitally. Seniors are what sociologists call digital immigrants, which means they were born and grew…

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Caregiver Cheat Sheet: Do You Really Need A Landline?

Just when you were finally getting used to the world being digital, now the world has gone mobile. Games, movie tickets, valet parking, coupons, even voting for So You Think You Can Dance – everyday life is now conducted on your phone. Oh, and it makes phone calls too – if you’re still making those!…

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Caregiver Cheat Sheet: Seniors Vs Scammers

Disreputable uses of the phone have been around since the day after Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone – or so it seems. When Bart Simpson calls Moe’s Bar and asks for Mr. I.P. Freely, it’s funny to everyone except Moe. But when scammers call seniors with ever more elaborate scams and ruses, it’s not…

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Caregivers Cheat Sheet: Joint Bank Accounts 101, Part 1

The responsibilities of caregiving are diverse, ranging from physical care, to emotional support, to financial caretaking. Family caregivers who help Mom or Dad pay their bills or manage their money often need access to the parental accounts to make these tasks a little easier. Setting up a joint bank account may seem like the natural…

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