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ACCESS DENIED: Old People Locked Out of Life

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ACCESS DENIED: Old People Locked Out of Life

A short, pointed piece on how the digital world shuts older people out — portals, passwords, endless changes to how you log in, and nobody to speak to. Phyllis Haynes names it as exclusion rather than inconvenience.

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