Next workshopFRI, SEP 18 at 11:00 AMRufty-Holmes Senior CenterAI Basics for Everyday Life
GOLD - Growing Older Living Digitally
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What we teach

Three areas where the stakes are real

Not general computer lessons. The real tasks that everyday life now runs on, taught on the device you brought, until you know you can do them.

Digital health

MyChart and other patient portals

Refilling a prescription, booking an appointment, reading a result. The things that used to mean a phone call and a wait.

  • Refilling a prescription without calling the office
  • Scheduling, changing, or cancelling an appointment yourself
  • Sending your care team a question and finding their answer
  • Reading a test result and knowing what it means for you

6,200people have come through our patient portal programming, in collaboration with Epic

Scam defense

The S.C.A.M. framework

Four steps, practiced on the kind of messages going around right now, so you can spot one before it costs you anything.

  • Stop, Confirm, Avoid sharing, Make a report, practiced on real messages
  • Why caller ID and sender addresses can lie, and what to trust instead
  • What to do in the first ten minutes if you already clicked
  • Passwords and two-step sign-in, set up on your own device before you leave

90%tell us they feel safer about scams afterward

AI readiness

ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Copilot

What these tools can actually do for you day to day, and how to ask so the answer comes back useful.

  • Getting help with an everyday task: a letter, a list, a recipe, a summary
  • Having something confusing explained back to you in plain language
  • Asking a question in a way that gets you a genuinely useful answer
  • Where these tools already sit inside the apps you use every day

7 in 10use a conversational AI tool after the workshop

Coming next

Room to grow

What people need keeps changing, and what we teach changes with it. This is where a fourth area would sit.