It’s been driving Sheila Capell crazy: Her phone keeps saying her iCloud is full and she needs to click on a link and pay up. Now.

“What is the iCloud?” Capell, 83, asked during a recent get-together at her retirement community in West Boca. “They keep sending me messages that they’re going to eliminate my videos. I hate that phone.”

Anne Goldberg, 73, a teacher and author, wants older adults like Capell to stop the hate. It’s time for the aging to embrace technology, especially smartphones, Goldberg says, for brain health, socialization skills and a sense of self-worth.

Goldberg addressed a crowd of cellphone-weary seniors on Oct. 23 at Sinai Residences, on the campus of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County. She is the author of the newly published “Take This Phone And Shov

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