435: Helping Aging Adults to Harness Technology and Discover More in Retirement with Tom Kamber
Retire With Purpose - The Retirement Podcast
Casey Weade
4.7 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Today, I'm talking to Dr. Tom Kamber. Tom is the founder and executive director of Older Adults Technology Services (OATS) and Senior Planet. He is a leading expert on aging and technology and has provided award-winning programs for older adults across America.
Tom has taught courses on technology, urban studies, and philanthropy at Columbia University, is widely published in professional and academic journals, and is a co-founder of the Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance which has won multiple Grammy awards.
In our conversation, Tom and I dig into common questions retirees have about technology, how to leverage technology like AI to get more out of retirement, and some best practices to protect yourself from fraud and identity theft.
In this podcast interview, you'll learn:
- Why people are so tired of talking about legacy–and why it's making an impact that really matters.
- The encounter with an 80-year-old woman who fell in love with dance later in life that radically shifted Tom's perspective and practice.
- How to address older people's anxieties, resistance, or discomfort around new technology–and how Tom gets people over the age of 50 to participate in the Senior Planet community.
- Why Tom believes AI has huge potential to empower seniors.
- How to deal with common scams including identity theft, gift card fraud, stolen passwords, and relatives who are supposedly in trouble.
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| 0:00.0 | Just pick one thing that does anything that you want to do and start using that the way that you want to accomplish something and take the time to learn it. |
| 0:07.8 | Because once you get one piece of technology that you're working with, there's transferable skills to other pieces. |
| 0:30.7 | If you have questions about technology in retirement, how to better leverage technology, how to stay up to date, then this conversation is going to be for you today. |
| 0:34.6 | We're also going to be talking about solving for X at the end of life. So if you have end of life questions and thoughts, this is a topic that you're |
| 0:38.4 | going to want to focus on today. Look forward to our conversation today with our guest. We have Dr. |
| 0:43.5 | Tom Camber. I am Casey Weed. I'm the host of Retire with Purpose podcast, and it is my mission |
| 0:48.9 | to deliver clarity and purpose and elevate meaning in your life. And before we get into the |
| 0:53.2 | conversation, I want you to know what to expect moving forward if you're a new subscriber to the show. |
| 0:59.6 | Every single week, we're getting together with you and we're talking about trending topics |
| 1:04.0 | in the retirement planning space, both financial and non-financial. These conversations come |
| 1:09.1 | up from our weekend reading for retirees |
| 1:11.1 | email series. That's an email that about 10,000 people subscribe to across the world, and you |
| 1:17.0 | have to subscribe to this in order to stay up to date on the latest trends. We include four articles |
| 1:22.3 | on trending topics, a variety of different summaries and takeaways for myself, along with all kinds of other great |
| 1:28.5 | resources, free webinars on taxes and social security and health care and retirement book |
| 1:34.1 | giveaways. So get yourself this resource. And if you've never subscribed before, we're going to |
| 1:39.1 | send you a free digital copy of my Wall Street Journal bestselling book, job optional. |
| 1:43.7 | And we'll also be |
| 1:44.8 | inviting you every couple weeks to submit questions for me to bring into these conversations |
| 1:50.1 | like you're going to see me do here today with Tom. |
| 1:53.5 | Every other week, we drop a long-form podcast on Mondays, and that's what we're doing |
| 1:59.6 | here. |
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