Wayne Senior Center digital navigator Francis Lyons offers one-on-one tech help to a Wayne Senior Center member. (Courtesy of Wayne Senior Center)

We more and more have the facility to make use of expertise to assist ourselves, by buying listening to aids on-line, utilizing self-service checkout traces, navigating on-line Social Security portals and taking on-demand train courses, which might be overwhelming if you’re not acquainted utilizing totally different types of expertise.

The excellent news is that you simply wouldn’t have to determine issues out by yourself. There are group assets out there providing particular person classes, group workshops on tech-related points and expertise system lending libraries, which let you discover earlier than making the monetary funding in your individual system.

Your native senior heart is a hub of assets, a group gathering spot and a locus of knowledge sharing and help. Wayne Senior Center, serving older adults throughout the Main Line communities, is among the group assets for individuals who wish to discover expertise.

After going digital through the COVID-19 pandemic, the senior heart made a dedication to embrace new applied sciences, by means of the creation of a digital senior heart cellular app and investing in a digital actuality platform for programming.

In 2022, the senior heart expanded their workers to rent a digital navigator, devoted to creating tech associated applications and offering schooling and help for heart members.

“Since the Center has embraced and expanded how we use technology, I’ve witnessed how the tech program has greatly enabled older adults to feel comfortable and empowered using tech,” stated Margo Fine-Gabbay, the Center’s program director. “It’s become an integral part of the Center’s programs and will only continue to grow.”

In current months, a middle member utilized the tech assist and workshops to develop the talents and confidence to navigate researching easy methods to buy over-the-counter listening to aids on their very own.

Technology-related workshops at Wayne Senior Center have lined matters from smartphone fundamentals, easy methods to promote on-line by means of eBay and Facebook Marketplace, utilizing podcasts and music apps, to even exploring AI.

The workshops, developed and led by the Center’s digital navigator, Francis Lyons, have even expanded to areas throughout the group.

Adults age 55+ can discover the workshops and one-on-one tech help on the schedule at Radnor Memorial Library and Tredyffrin Public Library, in addition to being held on the senior heart.

In addition to the technology-related workshops, Wayne Senior Center affords expertise instruction within the type of one-on-one tech assist appointments, bodily reference supplies, digital actuality applications, an iPad lending library and a 24/7 digital senior heart.

Stop in or e-mail Lyons for extra data on expertise instruction, francis@wayneseniorcenter.org

About Wayne Senior Center

Since 1975, the Wayne Senior Center has led the trouble to supply a spot for older adults to have lively friendships on the Main Line. The mission of the Wayne Senior Center is to supply group, friendship and assets which enrich the lives of older adults. Wayne Senior Center is situated at 108 Station Road. For extra data, go to www.wayneseniorcenter.org.