iPad for elderly/dementia
My mother has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and given that it's World Alzheimer Day (at least here in France) and I'm researching new computing hardware, I wondered if the investment in an iPad could be justified.
I know people have worked on iPhone apps to adapt the phone to the needs of the elderly (apparently with better result than the usual "senior phones"), and I can well imagine the interface ought to be intuitive even for people with declining brain function. Typing iPad and dementia in Google gives some interesting hits, too.
Has anyone on here direct experience with use of an iPad by an elderly person with dementia? Any ideas if/how the new functionality in 4.2 might make the thing less usable (I'm thinking of folders and multitasking)?
And ... any ideas if there just might be an upcoming new version with a builtin webcam?? (BTW, are there apps that allow to view someone's webcam ... Skype apparently doesn't support this?)
I know people have worked on iPhone apps to adapt the phone to the needs of the elderly (apparently with better result than the usual "senior phones"), and I can well imagine the interface ought to be intuitive even for people with declining brain function. Typing iPad and dementia in Google gives some interesting hits, too.
Has anyone on here direct experience with use of an iPad by an elderly person with dementia? Any ideas if/how the new functionality in 4.2 might make the thing less usable (I'm thinking of folders and multitasking)?
And ... any ideas if there just might be an upcoming new version with a builtin webcam?? (BTW, are there apps that allow to view someone's webcam ... Skype apparently doesn't support this?)
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