I am on a quest to set up an iPad for people with mild cognitive impairment – to make things simpler. \u00a0Using the phone can become difficult for folks with MCI or Parkinson’s – trying to remember all of those numbers or just clicking on M1 for this person or M2 for that person. \u00a0I have a neighbor who calls and about 75% of the time she means to call someone else. \u00a0She always says that the “lines are crossed.” \u00a0It is not possible to explain that that is not possible. \u00a0I thought that it would be great to use the iPad in such a way that it could make calls or facetime others, but if it had custom icons with the faces of the people that are the caretakers. \u00a0One click to call a caretaker. \u00a0That would be much easier than using a phone.<\/p>\n
I first dabbled with an app called aHomeIcon<\/a> by Mokten Pty Ltd. \u00a0It allows you to create a custom icon for your home screen and one touch to do things like: call someone on your contact list, send a message, show a photo, or bring up a URL. \u00a0The app is $0.99 which is great. \u00a0I’ve been playing around with it and was able to set up a custom icon to call one of my contacts and also to skype one of my contacts. \u00a0I set it up to show a few photos – which are pictures of pills. \u00a0I thought that it would be good for people who needed a bit of assistance to have quick and easy access to their current pills. \u00a0When clicking on the custom icon it asks about opening it up in aHomeIcon and you have to agree. \u00a0That might trip up someone who was using this as an aid. \u00a0So, additional testing is necessary.<\/p>\n Today, I downloaded another app called Workflow<\/a>. \u00a0It seems to be uber powerful.<\/p>\n I need to learn much more about it in order to make it useful. \u00a0Here are some links I don’t want to lose:<\/p>\n I am on a quest to set up an iPad for people with mild cognitive impairment – to make things…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suzannemcginnis.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suzannemcginnis.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suzannemcginnis.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suzannemcginnis.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suzannemcginnis.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suzannemcginnis.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"http:\/\/www.suzannemcginnis.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suzannemcginnis.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suzannemcginnis.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suzannemcginnis.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n