Computers and the elderly can be a difficult combination. Most people have integrated computers into their daily lives for both work and personal reasons with relative ease. Elder individuals, however, are generally inexperienced with computers and can find frustrating and difficult to use. Fortunately, more and more software is being developed to make it easy for the elderly to use computers.
PointerWare makes computers easy to use
PointerWare is a new program that essentially displaces Windows as a computers operating system (it is not available for Mac OSX yet). PointerWare’s website also has a short video that shows how the program can be used.
Think of it as a very simplified version of Windows, that provides easy access to the programs most people use. It provides one-click access to: Internet, Photos, Games, and Mail.
Simplified programs
The Mail program, for example, uses large fonts, and can also read emails outloud. If someone sends photos in an email, there is a large button called “display photos.” Users can also easily respond to messages by either typing a response, or recording a voice response. Any attached website links are also translated into large buttons, making it easy for users to click on. While these features seem obvious to most computer users, they would be very helpful to a person who is not computer literate.
The other programs are similarly easy to use. Users can easily make web searches, play games, and look at photos.
Free trial for readers
You can try out the program through this link. As a bonus to our readers, if you enter ”ElderParentHelp” as the coupon code you will get 60 days, instead of 30 days, to try it out.
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Randall Ryder is consumer rights attorney in Minnesota, where he suesabusive debt collectors and is a publisher of Elder Parent Help.