As Our Parents Age

Good-bye Steve Jobs: iPad for Dad, #19

Memorial messages cover windows at our local Apple store

Yesterday morning when my dad wrote his daily blog post — about the life and achievements of Steve Jobs –I realized, once again, just how much Jobs’ life, vision, and achievements are a part of our general culture. One doesn’t need to be digitally savvy, a gadget fanatic, an iPhone evangelist, or even a Macintosh loyalist. All that’s required is experience with one intuitive Apple product — in this case my dad, age 88, writing on his iPad — and an interest in the news.

Over the years that I’ve spent working in the educational technology field, that’s the way it’s gone again and again.  Give a senior, a teacher — in fact just about anyone — a Mac or an iPhone, and they use it and work with it, and the tech people barely see them. Now the same thing is starting to happen with iPads.

Boy would I love to have a dozen iPads to use with residents in an assisted living or other senior community. Read more »

October 7, 2011 Posted by Marti Weston | advertising and seniors, aging changes, Innoculations and Vaccines, seniors and social networking | commencement speech, death, digital revolution, iPad, iPad for Dad, seniors and technology, Stanford University, Steve Jobs | 1 Comment