Caregiver Cheat Sheet

Five Things Seniors Need To Know About Smart TVs

Have you purchased a new television in the last five years or so? Welcome to the world of smart televisions! Entertainment devices once had unique and simple functions: play songs and news, display TV shows, download email, or make phone calls. The TV was only as smart as the person holding the remote needed it…

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Ten Ways To Thank A Family Caregiver This Holiday Season

In November, National Family Caregivers Month, we are encouraged to remember and honor the family caregivers in our lives. Nearly one third of American adults is a caregiver to a relative, whether full-time or part-time, long-distance or down the hall, physically or emotionally. The unpaid care that these family members give, often in addition to…

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Five San Diego Resources For Military Caregivers

There are an estimated 650,000 family (aka unpaid) caregivers in San Diego County, and if the national averages hold true here, about 90,000 of those are caring for former or current military personnel. San Diego is a long-time military city, offering many resources for veterans and their caregivers. Here are some useful resources available in…

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15 Google Tools You’ll Love!: Caregiver Cheat Sheet Bonus

The Internet can show, find or connect you to anything you need or want, as long as you can ask the right question of the right source. Most of us use Google to find the right site or tool – but did you know that you don’t always have to search that way? You can…

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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: Best Budgeting Software

We’d all like to live in the world of that PowerBall commercial, where money falls from the sky onto a grinning, spinning winner who will never have to budget again. Who wouldn’t want that? Ironically, about 70% of lottery winners bankrupt themselves within five years, because they give a lot of money to expectant family…

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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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