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February 25, 2021

Shopping online eases isolation for older adults

  • People 65 and older rang up nearly $187 per month online last year, up 60% from a year earlier.
    • By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
    AP Retail Writer

    NEW YORK — In November, Paula Mont did something new: The 86-year-old, who hasn't left her New Jersey senior living community in nearly a year, went shopping — online.

    Mont used an iPad, equipped with a stylus to help her shaky hands, to buy a toy grand piano for her great-granddaughter. She picked it out from more than a dozen versions of the instrument on Amazon.


     
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