diff --git a/passlib/apache.py b/passlib/apache.py
index da0cf01f..aec7a141 100644
--- a/passlib/apache.py
+++ b/passlib/apache.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 import os
 from os import PathLike
-from typing import Literal
+from typing import Literal, Optional
 from warnings import warn
 
 
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ def load_if_changed(self):
         self.load()
         return True
 
-    def load(self, path: PathLike | None = None) -> Literal[True]:
+    def load(self, path: Optional[PathLike] = None) -> Literal[True]:
         """Load state from local file.
         If no path is specified, attempts to load from ``self.path``.
 
diff --git a/passlib/ext/django/utils.py b/passlib/ext/django/utils.py
index 1cfe4704..129b8a86 100644
--- a/passlib/ext/django/utils.py
+++ b/passlib/ext/django/utils.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import weakref
 from collections import OrderedDict
 from functools import update_wrapper, wraps, lru_cache
+from typing import Union
 from warnings import warn
 from passlib import exc, registry
 from passlib.context import CryptContext
@@ -12,7 +13,7 @@
 from passlib.utils.compat import get_method_function
 from passlib.utils.decor import memoized_property
 
-DJANGO_VERSION: tuple[int | str, ...]
+DJANGO_VERSION: tuple[Union[int, str], ...]
 try:
     from django import VERSION as DJANGO_VERSION
 
diff --git a/passlib/utils/handlers.py b/passlib/utils/handlers.py
index 4298444b..35307877 100644
--- a/passlib/utils/handlers.py
+++ b/passlib/utils/handlers.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 import inspect
 import math
 import threading
+from typing import Optional, Union
 from warnings import warn
 
 from passlib import exc
@@ -638,23 +639,23 @@ class GenericHandler(MinimalHandler):
     # class attr
     # ===================================================================
     # this must be provided by the actual class.
-    setting_kwds: tuple[str, ...] | None = None
+    setting_kwds: Optional[tuple[str, ...]] = None
 
     # providing default since most classes don't use this at all.
     context_kwds = ()
 
     # optional prefix that uniquely identifies hash
-    ident: str | None = None
+    ident: Optional[str] = None
 
     # optional regexp for recognizing hashes,
     # used by default identify() if .ident isn't specified.
     _hash_regex = None
 
     # if specified, _norm_checksum will require this length
-    checksum_size: int | None = None
+    checksum_size: Optional[int] = None
 
     # if specified, _norm_checksum() will validate this
-    checksum_chars: str | None = None
+    checksum_chars: Optional[str] = None
 
     # private flag used by HasRawChecksum
     _checksum_is_bytes = False
@@ -1329,8 +1330,8 @@ class HasSalt(GenericHandler):
     # ===================================================================
 
     min_salt_size = 0
-    max_salt_size: int | None = None
-    salt_chars: str | None = None
+    max_salt_size: Optional[int] = None
+    salt_chars: Optional[str] = None
 
     @classproperty
     def default_salt_size(cls):
@@ -1662,7 +1663,7 @@ class HasRounds(GenericHandler):
     # XXX: rename to min_valid_rounds / max_valid_rounds,
     #      to clarify role compared to min_desired_rounds / max_desired_rounds?
     min_rounds: int = 0
-    max_rounds: int | None = None
+    max_rounds: Optional[int] = None
     rounds_cost: str = "linear"  # default to the common case
 
     # hack to pass info to _CryptRecord (will be removed in passlib 2.0)
@@ -1680,7 +1681,7 @@ class HasRounds(GenericHandler):
     # -----------------
     min_desired_rounds = None
     max_desired_rounds = None
-    default_rounds: int | None = None
+    default_rounds: Optional[int] = None
     vary_rounds = None
 
     # ===================================================================
@@ -1697,7 +1698,7 @@ def using(
         min_desired_rounds=None,
         max_desired_rounds=None,
         default_rounds=None,
-        vary_rounds: str | float | None = None,
+        vary_rounds: Union[str, float, None] = None,
         min_rounds=None,
         max_rounds=None,
         rounds=None,  # aliases used by CryptContext
diff --git a/tests/utils.py b/tests/utils.py
index 6b61369a..6a95831c 100644
--- a/tests/utils.py
+++ b/tests/utils.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 from functools import wraps, partial
 import hashlib
 import logging
+from typing import Optional, Union
 from unittest import SkipTest
 
 import random
@@ -342,7 +343,7 @@ class TestCase(unittest.TestCase):
     # ---------------------------------------------------------------
 
     # string prepended to all tests in TestCase
-    descriptionPrefix: str | None = None
+    descriptionPrefix: Optional[str] = None
 
     def shortDescription(self):
         """wrap shortDescription() method to prepend descriptionPrefix"""
@@ -827,7 +828,7 @@ class HandlerCase(TestCase):
     # ---------------------------------------------------------------
 
     # handler class to test [required]
-    handler: type[PasswordHash] | PrefixWrapper = None
+    handler: Union[type[PasswordHash], PrefixWrapper] = None
 
     # if set, run tests against specified backend
     backend = None