volunteers needed, Sip & Swipe Cafe for older adults

Posted by on January 13, 2014

Coaches help older adults go online

What’s a Sip and Swipe Café? A place where older adults are taught computer skills (e.g., swiping) in a warm (coffee-drinking) venue.

As a Sip and Swipe Café Coach, a volunteer helps an older adult learn to use an iPad as they follow the simple, on screen tutorial provided by Coming of Age partner Generations on Line. The program offers step-by-step instructions to people over age 60 who have never used a computer or tablet before.

Philadelphia’s first group of coaches will work this winter with older adults at the Philadelphia Senior Center, 509 South Broad St, Philadelphia; Klein JCC, 10100 Jamison Avenue, (off Red Lion Road in NE Philadelphia); and Journey’s Way Senior Center, 403 Rector Street at Pechin St. in Roxborough.

Coaching is fun and requires only amateur iPad skills – just trouble shoot and motivate; all the training is on the screen.

A full support kit will be available to all coaches, including suggested session guides. Coaches volunteer for an hour or two a week, helping two older adults at a time.

For more information, email info@ComingofAge.org.