Using Face time or Skype in assisted living

Hi,

I have a friend in assisted living who has both memory and vision problems (difficulty in reading,

though she can see OK to do Skype calls). She also has a very hard time learning new procedures.

I would like to set up an iPad for her so that she could make and receive Face Time and /or Skype

calls. I know that you can use Siri to make a facetime call, providing she can learn to press and hold

the home button and speak the command. This is simple enough that I think she could learn it. I know

you can open Skype with Siri, but then you have to tap on a contact and perhaps do other things to make

a call, and I'm not as sure she could learn this.

My idea is to get a charging stand (iportproducts.com) and set the iPad up on her table, and leave it on

all the time (not let it sleep even) so that someone could call her that way and she would be able to answer

(though that might take a tap on an icon also)

Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?

Dave