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Toolkit Helps Guide Elderly on the Web


 

The National Institute on Aging is offering a free curriculum, “Helping Older Adults Search for Health Information Online: A Toolkit for Trainers.” Instructors can use this curriculum to teach elderly people how to find health information on the Web. The curriculum also contains easy-to-read health information from NIHSeniorHealth in different formats, including large type and open-captioned videos. For more information, visit http://nihseniorhealth.gov/toolkit

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