| You won't find it on Fifth Avenue, at the | | | | access, a 180-page largeprint workbook and |
| Galleria, on Rodeo Drive or in a suburban | | | | links to more than 850 discounted products |
| shopping mall. You can't eat it, wear it or | | | | (mostly home health care items). Sign up by |
| smell it. | | | | December 31 and you get a free family |
| | | | portrait from JCPenney. |
| But you can experience it. | | | | |
| ExperienceSeniorPower.com, that is: the | | | | With ESP@ Home, seniors surf the Net, create |
| computer learning program the Associated | | | | online autobiographies and photo albums, take |
| Press says "links generations, rather than | | | | part in cyber chats about politics and health |
| divides them." | | | | care, and stay in touch with relatives and |
| | | | friends. |
| ExperienceSeniorPower.com's newest offering, | | | | |
| ESP@ Home, is this year's hottest holiday | | | | Wadia Bajoka is a 71-year-old Iraqi immigrant |
| gift for senior citizens and it could land | | | | living outside of Detroit who never went near |
| you in the "Holiday Gift Hall of Fame." | | | | a computer until two months ago. Now she |
| | | | works on the ESP@ Home curriculum with her |
| ESP@ Home helps seniors master computers, | | | | 17-year-old granddaughter, and plays computer |
| dive headfirst into the Internet and get the | | | | solitaire. |
| health and social services they need - right | | | | |
| in the comfort and safety of their own homes, | | | | World War II veteran John Granieri, 82, of |
| with the help of grandkids, nieces and | | | | San Antonio scanned family photos and posted |
| nephews. | | | | his autobiography online with the help of his |
| | | | 25-year-old granddaughter. |
| Thousands of seniors have signed on coast to | | | | |
| coast. | | | | "What better way to show grandma and grandpa |
| | | | you care than to give them the gift of |
| "We are the only national program that | | | | computer literacy and the sense of freedom |
| teaches seniors computer skills and the joys | | | | and adventure it brings?" Fama said. |
| of cyberspace by pairing them with young | | | | |
| people," said Tony Fama, founder and | | | | Recent studies prove that computer use among |
| president of the five-year-old Internet | | | | people 65 and older jumped nearly 50 percent |
| education program. | | | | in the past four years. ESP@ Home is perfect |
| | | | for this burgeoning population of "cyber |
| For only $49.99 a year, seniors get online | | | | seniors. |