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Another Gail Sheehy Event

This video at Iowa Public Television features Gail Sheehy lecturing on May 19, 2010, at the Des Moines Public Library about her book Passages in Caregiving. Sheehy’s lecture, part of the library’s Authors Visiting Des Moines series, describes the “predictable caregiving crisis” highlighting problems that caregivers experience and offering strategies that caregivers can adopt to make their lives, and the lives of cared-for love ones, easier.
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June 7, 2010 Posted by | aging changes, aging parents, Caregiving, Coordinating All of Our Lives | , , , | Leave a Comment

iPad for Dad, #7 – YouTube Rocks!

If you like this post, read some of the other descriptions of our Father/Daughter iPad adventure. iPad for Dad, #1, iPad for Dad, #2, iPad for Dad, #3,  iPad for Dad, #4, iPad for Dad, #5, iPad for Dad, #6,  iPad for Dad, #7, iPad for Dad, #8,  iPad for Dad, #9, iPad for Dad, #10, iPad for Dad, #11, iPad for Dad, #12, iPad for Dad, #13,  iPad for Dad, #14,  iPad for Dad, #15, iPad for Dad, #16,  iPad for Dad, #17 , iPad for Dad, #18,  iPad for Dad, #19, and iPad for Dad, #20.
 Saturday featured another in-person iPad lesson. Dad now has Comcast e-mail down cold — only a bit more practice is required. So we started with serious editing techniques so he can avoid deleting so many letters and words to make a single correction. As on my iPhone, it’s necessary to click after a word and delete backwards. So far, on both the iPad and iPhone deleting a single letter in the middle of a word does not work. Dad also branched out, sending e-mail to a couple of friends in addition to the few family members with whom he has practiced these past six weeks.

Today’s great success was YouTube — the iPad comes with a YouTube icon on its desktop. I demonstrated how to find all sorts of interesting videos — history just waiting to be accessed. Marian Anderson singing on the National Mall in 1939? Check. Leonard Bernstein lecturing at Harvard? Check. An Ogden Nash poetry reading? Check. Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony? Check…with the choice of several conductors. The Reverend William Sloan Coffin delivering a sermon? Check. Bill Moyers? Check, check, check — there must be 20 options with Moyers. Read more »

June 7, 2010 Posted by | aging parents, Intergenerational Interaction, iPad for Dad, Seniors and Technology | , , , , , | 3 Comments