I don’t care of they have raised six kids who all turned out perfectly or if they ran a business. Understand They They Will Probably Fear The Thing. And for heavens sake, let them do the tasks themselves. Here are my suggestions for helping elderly users learn how to use their Macs, iPhones, and iPads, in no specific order.įigure Out How They Learn Best. We have all this stuff taking up room in our heads, like black and white TV, and phone party lines, and manual typewriters, and even cloth diapers. Those of us who are older will never catch up with them. Or the two year old who knows how to switch the TV settings to Apple TV and then select a program to watch.īut I digress. Or the five year old who taught his father how to work his iPad. Since it is holiday time, may I make a few suggestions to help if you plan to give a Mac or iOS device to a first time user who is elderly? Never mind the kids, they seem to be born now days asking for an iPad which they somehow seem to already know how to use.Įxample, the three year old who accompanied her mother to work and used her iPad to place a Facetime call to her grandmother because she was bored.
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