Description: More than 18 million older Americans remain offline. Such factors as lower income and educational levels make it more difficult for the most vulnerable segment of our population to take full advantage of what has become an essential communications tool. We will jimp start the conversation with Senior Service America, Inc. (SSAI) sharing important lessons gleaned from their peer coaching approach for reaching hard-to-reach seniors and using low-income participants in their Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP).This has proven to be an effective way to leverage resources.
Location: Room 310
Date: Wednesday May 18th, 2016
Time: 2:15-3:15 PM
Panelists:
Cecilia Garcia
Former Executive Director of Benton Foundation
Bob Haryootan
Research Manager
Senior Service America, Inc.
Tony Sarmiento
Executive Director
Senior Service America, Inc.
Comments (1)
cecilia_garcia1@comcast.net said
at 1:17 pm on May 14, 2016
Here are links to two articles we wrote for Benton's Digital Beat Blog regarding low-income seniors and the Internet:
https://www.benton.org/blog/deeper-dive-data-seniors-and-internet
https://www.benton.org/blog/disadvantaged-elders-least-likely-be-online
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