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