![]() ![]() I want to reduce the risk of it being knocked over and I want to keep the angle as consistent as possible. It was important to me that the iPad would be placed in a stand and not a cover. The iPad Air was a given for me, since I had it at home. (We’ll see how that goes, there are a lot of challenges around financing and ensuring hygiene/security.) Hardware The iPad We agreed on staying in touch and maybe even setting up a few communal devices for all inhabitants of the home. In exchange, I also offered to help if other families were struggling with this due to a lack of technical knowledge. I was able to leave that call with a new found sense of optimism about my idea and the promise that a staff member would set up the device (with me guiding them via phone) in my grandma’s room. The family had put together an iPad as well and were using facetime to stay in touch. Their family member was in their 90s, had not been exposed to technology a lot in their life and was struggling with on-setting dementia. The director liked the idea very much and told me about a family member in a similar situation. I was able to talk to the administration of the home and got a very positive response! I’ve looked into options to make accepting the call as easy as possible and locking down potential unexpected notification to the absolute minimum.ĭue to the social distancing rules, it’s not possible for me to visit my grandma and set up the device. If my grandma – at any point – were under the impression that she had done something wrong or “broken” something, this would be causing stress. My focus on the software side shifted to avoiding accidental misuse.This made me look for a stand with a heavy base and good tip-over-resistance. Given the lack of experience with touchscreens, I imagined my grandma would likely be pressing the buttons like a physical button and tip the tablet over in the process. I had a case for the iPad that can be used to stand it up for a call.Her response prompted me to rethink two things: ![]() ![]() I wanted to avoid false hopes, so I only told her after testing most of the stuff and thinking things through properly. ![]() She was baffled that this would be possible and a bit nervous if she’d be able to use the device correctly without “breaking it”. Hearing my plan to give her a way to talk to and see her family completely surprised her. My grandma is in her 80s and never owned a touchscreen-device in her life. Quickly the idea was born to re-purpose the iPad as a single use appliance for my grandma to keep in contact and see her great-granddaughter once in a while. Also I have wonderful Surface Pro 6, so who needs anything else anyway? Right? I had an iPad Air lying around the apartment that I had stopped using because the battery is in a terrible state and it slows to a crawl if you try to use it properly. My grandma is a very social woman who loves to be surrounded by people and, more than anything, enjoys having my daughter (her great-granddaughter) running around her place.Ĭombine this with a lack of understanding for technology and the incapability to use a smartphone (ruling out WhatsApp-Videocalls and the like) an you get: Loneliness. So there she is – recently widowed, without any chance of being visited by her family and only a nurse checking in a few times a day and bringing food. Right now she’s confined to her room within strict social distancing rules trying to protect the main risk group. My grandma lives in an assisted living home about an hour away and my grandpa just died a few weeks ago. But I’d like to venture into a more personal realm here today. We’ve seen a whole bunch of articles and posts on how we can enable work from home and what we can do to keep our companies functional. For some of us that’s easier and for some it’s a bit harder. With Covid-19 running wild, we all need to cut back and adopt our lifestyle to the situation. Updated results after a week of use can be found below! ![]()
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