Table 2.

Family support quotations.

Subtheme	Quote
Assistance from grandchildren and adult children	“My grandkids do that. I mean, like I said, if I have a problem, I call my grandkids. They're teenagers.” “I give [Mia] the phone and she just zips right through it. Okay, thank you, I'm where I can work it now. Bye.”
Relationship building from technology	“Well, my son's forty—let's see, my daughter's fifty. He'll be forty-eight this year, so he's always been a computer geek. So he builds [computers] and all that kind of crud. If I'm having a problem, I call him.” “I think I still have my original flip phone, but my kids said, mom, you need this [smart phone].” “It’s like whenever I don’t know something, I ask [my grandchildren], and they know. So it’s pretty cool. And then it’s kind of cool because I get to learn all the new lingo and that sort of thing.” “Facebook, I got the app on there and my granddaughter helped me a little bit. She lives in California, so I don’t see her very often.” “I use computer somewhat for email and stuff and then when I got my iPhone, I abandoned the computer. I may go on it once a month because I do Facebook and email. I Facetime with my granddaughter…I do!” “I use Facebook. That's how I keep track of my daughter and grandson and granddaughter.”
Potential challenges with family support	“She will sometimes slow down and have the patience to teach me. ‘Granny, you know.’ She just gets frustrated with me because it comes slow to me…She is just a wiz on that thing.” “There are certain things that my son is going to teach me how to do something, and it’s so instinctive to him that he doesn’t even know how to explain it.” “But you want to also be careful of 5- and 6-year-olds, because they could screw everything up, they really could. The reason they get something done is because they’re not afraid to try.”