Modern Life Resources for Older Adults

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Susan and Mark compare expected and suspicious emails on a tablet, with tips for checking messages safely.

How to Tell If an Email Is Real or Suspicious

Email can be useful, convenient, and confusing all at once. It helps you receive receipts, appointment reminders, family messages, newsletters, bills, travel confirmations, account alerts, password resets, documents, and updates...

How to Tell If an Email Is Real or Suspicious

Email can be useful, convenient, and confusing all at once. It helps you receive receipts, appointment reminders, family messages, newsletters, bills, travel confirmations, account alerts, password resets, documents, and updates...

Older couple reviews smartphone notification alerts for messages, calendar reminders, weather, email, app updates, and security.

What Do All These Phone Notifications Mean?

Phone notifications can feel like they never stop. A message appears at the top of the screen. A red number shows up on an app. A sound plays. The phone...

What Do All These Phone Notifications Mean?

Phone notifications can feel like they never stop. A message appears at the top of the screen. A red number shows up on an app. A sound plays. The phone...

Why Streaming TV Feels So Complicated Now

Why Streaming TV Feels So Complicated Now

Streaming TV was supposed to make watching television easier. Instead of waiting for a program to come on at a certain time, you could choose what you wanted to watch...

Why Streaming TV Feels So Complicated Now

Streaming TV was supposed to make watching television easier. Instead of waiting for a program to come on at a certain time, you could choose what you wanted to watch...

Older man viewing a PDF on a tablet with icons for opening, saving, printing, scanning, uploading, and confirming documents.

What Is a PDF? A Simple Explanation for Everyda...

PDFs show up everywhere now. A doctor’s office may send a form as a PDF. A bank may send a statement as a PDF. A store may send a receipt...

What Is a PDF? A Simple Explanation for Everyda...

PDFs show up everywhere now. A doctor’s office may send a form as a PDF. A bank may send a statement as a PDF. A store may send a receipt...

Older couple reviewing an email inbox on a laptop with callouts for inbox, search, spam, attachments, links, and security.

Why Email Feels So Different Now

Email used to feel more straightforward. You opened your inbox, read your messages, replied when needed, deleted what you did not want, and moved on. Today, email can feel like...

Why Email Feels So Different Now

Email used to feel more straightforward. You opened your inbox, read your messages, replied when needed, deleted what you did not want, and moved on. Today, email can feel like...

Older woman confidently holding a smartphone beside a large simplified phone screen, with Modern Boomer Guides tips for calls, texts, photos, settings, and privacy.

How to Use Your Smartphone Without Feeling Over...

Learn how to use your smartphone with more confidence by simplifying notifications, apps, settings, updates, privacy, and everyday phone habits.

How to Use Your Smartphone Without Feeling Over...

Learn how to use your smartphone with more confidence by simplifying notifications, apps, settings, updates, privacy, and everyday phone habits.