Re: Internet for senior citizens

[BSAllen <BSAllen@AOL.COM>]

Forgive the posting but I hit the delete button before I realized that I
actually had insight on the question of what seniors might be interested in on
the Internet.  There is a wealth of medical and health awareness information
on the Internet and I have answered medical questions for several of my older
relatives by looking on the web.  Unfortunately, there is no single site that
will answer all questions so I can't give you sites.  The search engine that I
use is metacrawler (www.metacrawler.com) which queries excite, yahoo, lycos,
infoseek and webcrawler and returns the top 10 hits from each.  I just enter a
symptom or diagnosis and see what I get.  As an example, my mother-in-law was
able to cure her vertigo (for which her doctor had been prescribing dramamine)
by using exercises we found at a medical clinic site on the web.  A good
starting search as an example is probably blood pressure since many seniors
have high blood pressure.  A lot of the information is general information
like the phamplets your doctor hands you, if he has them and remembers, so
it's easily read and understood.  There are also patient stories and really
detailed clinical information.  I think a lot of seniors are interested in
more and better information about the health problems they face.

Have fun!

Barbara Allen
Program Analyst / Library Services
Tucson Unified School District
Tucson, AZ
bsallen@aol.com

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