Empowering Seniors: 5 Essential Tips for Online Safety and Support

Join our free webinar with our expert Digital Skills trainer Lucy Walsh, who will share 5 key apps, tools and online sites that older people tell us make their lives easier as part of embracing the digital age. 

We'll also share top tips for connecting and staying safer online if you are older or a disabled adult, including the innovative ‘Ask.Silver.com’ app, and outline the free resources available via AbilityNet to help with navigating the digital world.

Everyone who registers will receive the recording, slides and transcript after the event, so do sign up even if you can't attend on the broadcast date.

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Who will benefit from this webinar?

The session will benefit:

• Older people and disabled adults
• Carers of older people or disabled adults
• Health professionals working with older people or disabled adults
• People interested in tech and digital devices
• Web and Accessibility professionals interested in design and digital considerations for older people and disabled adults

If you work for an organisation that helps older people or disabled adults, this webinar shares useful resources and advice to help your clients.

This session is part of AbilityNet's work with telecommunications company BT Group to help older and digitally excluded people to build online skills and confidence.

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Everyone who registers will receive the recording, slides and transcript after the event, so do sign up even if you can't attend on the broadcast date.

Q&A

This webinar will run for 60 minutes and include an opportunity to pose questions to the speaker(s). Any unanswered questions will be answered on this page after the webinar broadcast. Find out more about our webinars in our FAQs information.

Meet the panellists

Lucy Walsh, BT Digital Skills Trainer, AbilityNet

Lucy joined AbilityNet in 2023 on the BT Digital Skills project, providing digital confidence training to clients in the Cardiff and Bristol area. Her previous roles have included being a trainer and coach in both the Financial and Third Sectors, notably for Lloyds TSB, Save the Children and Royal British Legion.

Do you know an elderly person or a group of older people or disabled adults who want to know more about using digital devices?

Useful links

• Blog: Using technology to help elderly relatives from afar 
• Sign up to the AbilityNet newsletter for more free resources like this webinar!
• Find out about AbilityNet's Digital accessibility services