Help elderly protect passwords on-line

Passwords on computers are a nightmare for all of us. We need them for shopping, banking, accessing information and for email. It’s hard to remember the details for every single site and safety is also a concern in case your information is hacked

Here are a few tips to help your parents keep their passwords safe and also to help them to remember them:

1. Passwords should be complicated to protect against hacking
2. Ideally, they should have upper and lower case letters and include numbers as well
3. Your parent should try to avoid common words or names and should definitely not use their own name
4. To try and remember username and passwords, it helps to make the username the same as their email address if the site will allow it
5. Give your parent a small notebook and get them to write down the username and password when they set one up on a new site. They should keep this in a safe place however!
6. Many computer will save password details for your parent if they click the button when it comes up asking them if they would like to save, but they should never do this on a shared computer
7. They could also use the password protection service, Last Pass, which encrypts all passwords and gives your parent just one to use for all services. This can remove all the hassle from remembering all the different passwords on every site

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