Florence Henderson Helps Seniors Use Gadgets

The FloH Club is Florence Henderson's tech-support hot line designed for older adults who want to become comfortable using the Internet and electronic devices such as smart phones -- but aren't exactly sure how.

Florence Henderson, made famous as the Brady Bunch mom, was motivated to start a tech-support service for aging adults after facing the fact that she didn't know how to use the power of her cellphone, other than to make a phone call.

Now, as a proficient grandmother who uses text-messenger, Skype and Facebook, this proficient grandmother and communicator wants to help others learn to do the same.

Her company, The FloH Club, set up a partnership with an online computer-support company, Support.com, to staff the hot line. It is open seven days a week, 8 a.m to 2 a.m. Eastern time.

Members can call with any type of technical issue, from dealing with frozen screens and sputtering systems to configuring a new printer, figuring out e-mail mysteries and even backing up a hard drive.

Memberships to the FloH Club run $25 per month or $250 for a year. In addition, the service offers one-time, dedicated training sessions for $50 covering a number of topics, including learning how to download pictures from a digital camera and setting up a Facebook account.

Currently, the service is only available for Windows-based operating systems. But if the demand is there, the FloH Club will expand to Mac operating systems. 

"Now you can stay connected with your family," Henderson said. "And you don't have to feel embarrassed or stupid about asking for help."

Sounds like  the motherly advice Mrs Brady would hand out to learners of all ages!