iPad for Dad, #17: Who’s Managing Dad’s iPad?
Last April, when I purchased Dad’s birthday iPad, I set it up to download and sync on my computer. For the past ten months I have updated the iPad and kept track of apps they might like, downloading applications when I visit. Things have been just peachy. Until now.
This past Saturday when I was visiting my parents, age 87 and 83, they asked, out of the blue, if they can download apps and how they might go about it. I explained how I have the iPad set up. That’s when they both looked me in the eye and asked me to make changes that will allow them to manage the iPad. Read more »
Is Your Senior Parent a Library Devotee?
Memories from the not-too-distant past …
Early this week, on a tour of the Library of Congress (LOC)
, I took this picture of the pre-electronic era card catalog area. I also found these statistics posted by the LOC librarians on a nearby wall.
Most of our parents know how to use card catalogs backwards and forwards so they will definitely enjoy these pictures from the good old days.
The LOC catalog is still there, though it has not been updated since 1980. Seems like yesterday.
Becoming A Grown-up Child
One day in April 2007 my husband and I were the adult kids in our families — we are the only adult children
— and the next day we became what we laughingly call “real grown-ups,” helping first one, then two, and increasingly all three of our parents. It’s time to give back, and we do so willingly and happily. However the process is not easy, and it is not free from anxiety and tension. Check out the As Our Parents Age About page to learn more about the mission of this blog.
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