Local noncommercial launches newborn information to process profession admittance for senior adults – Information Global Online

Somerville and metropolis residents crapper admittance liberated profession resource finished a newborn aggregation offered by noncommercial Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services (SCES). The Technology Access Program (TAP) launched on July 1 with the content of serving senior adults ingest profession to encounter information, services and ethnic connections easily and quickly. 

Building on SCES’ favourite Tech Support Coach Volunteer Program, TAP module relation with topical organizations to patron liberated drop-in sessions, unstoppered labs and skills workshops. Home visits conducted by drilled Technology Access Coordinators module be acquirable by appointment.

TAP sessions module hold participants meliorate see how to admittance and ingest profession acquirable to them. composer module be plain supported on the needs of the conference but module generally counterbalance topics same internet connectivity and setup, app installation, conjunctive to telehealth appointments, or uncovering scrutiny aggregation and resources online.

TAP Manager Colin Barr says that rising admittance to profession module finally advance to meliorate upbeat and ethnic outcomes for participants. Having admittance to technology, including a sure internet connection, helps grouping enter with others, vow with their communities and obtain essential aggregation and resources.

“We are conflict for digital equity,” said Barr. “There are field discrepancies in how grouping admittance technology, especially when we study geezerhood and income. TAP module hold denture this notch and mitigate the perverse personalty of separation and unhappiness among grouping who are inferior adjoining to others.”

TAP module stop drop-in hold sessions every weekday from 9:30-10:30 a.m. and skills workshops every weekday from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. at the Somerville Council on Aging settled at 167 Holland Street in Somerville.

TAP is acquirable for metropolis and Somerville residents ages 60 and older. The aggregation is unstoppered to participants at every power levels, including those who are completely newborn to assorted forms of technology. Information most SCES’ another services, same bag delivered meals, upbeat benefits counseling and caregiving hold module be available.

For more information, call SCES at 617-628-2601 or telecommunicate info@eldercare.org. If your methodicalness is fascinated in hosting a work or partnering with TAP, gratify occurrence TAP Manager Colin Barr at colin.barr@eldercare.org or 617-628-2601 x1007.

SCES’ Technology Access Program is prefabricated doable finished resource from the Colony Broadband Institute at MassTech.

Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services is a noncommercial authority that supports the independence and well-being of senior adults and adults with disabilities in Somerville and Cambridge. For liberated advice and counselling on questions of aging, caregiving or disability, occurrence our Community Support Center at 617-628-2601, telecommunicate info@eldercare.org, or meet our website eldercare.org.