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Resource Review: Eons.com

Posted on September 13, 2011 | No Comments
Eons.com is an online community for recreation-minded boomers. They have 850,000 users who contribute to over a thousand dicussion threads.
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Caregiver Support by way of Mobile Technologies

Posted on January 10, 2011 | No Comments
It is estimated that 65.7 million Americans serve as unpaid caregivers for parents, children, and other loved ones and about 78 percent of these family caregivers say they could use more information, this is according to a 2009 study by the National Alliance of...
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How Seniors are Using Technology and What to Expect

Posted on December 29, 2010 | 3 Comments
In the U.S., older adults are perhaps the largest consumers of media and they are more likely than younger generations to read a newspaper or watch network television. Therefore it shouldn’t be surprising that as technology becomes more common, seniors are embracing the cultural shift...
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The Boomer Can Can!!!

Posted on November 18, 2010 | No Comments
Silverado’s Senior Director of Marketing Communications reminds baby boomers to stay positive and present in this hilarious song! The grand finale for the recent WomanSage Conference featured the comical frustrations of an entire generation of boomers to the tune of up-beat can can music. Silverado...
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Seniors Leading Social Networking

Posted on September 10, 2010 | No Comments
While social media use has grown dramatically across all age groups, older users have been especially enthusiastic over the past year about embracing new networking tools. Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled—from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in...
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Animals Take Their Turn at Chat Roulette

Posted on August 5, 2010 | No Comments
Technology may change the way we adopt animals. Original article from AOL Weird News: Larry Knowles AOL News (Aug. 3) — First it was Chat Roulette, a zany Internet phenomenon that paired random strangers for video chatting. Now, there’s a twist on the concept: Animal...
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Talk To Us: Online Chat with Silverado

Posted on July 10, 2010 | No Comments
After spending over half an hour on the phone pushing 45 buttons on an automated message system, I’m at the brink of tears and just want to hear another human being’s voice on the other end of the line to answer my questions. We live...
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Silverado’s Annelle Travis Sings on ALFA Music Video!

Posted on May 27, 2010 | 1 Comment
ALFA’s music video which was premiered at the conference. The producer of this video selected 10 people to record the song “Every Day” out of over 100 audition tapes. Our very own Annelle Travis, Administrator, Silverado At Home – Los Angeles, was one of the...
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Cell Phone Radiation Reverses Alzheimer’s disease…in Mice

Posted on January 7, 2010 | No Comments
Today it is common place to see people roaming the mall looking like Star trek cyborgs. Nearly every person you see is either chattering away on a Bluetooth head set or obsessively tweeting on their cell phones which might as well be an extension of...
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