Re: Help....My Grandmother is going Blind.

Wooly wrote:
>
> On 8 Sep 2005 13:57:25 -0700, "Music Lover" <coyotes@xxxxxxxxx> spewed
> forth :
>
> >96-year-old woman, although sharp for her age, needs direction from her
> >family members.
>
> Lordy, if I happen to "need direction" (assuming I live past 70) when
> I get old please PLEASE just give me a massive stroke some fine
> morning while I'm enjoying my espresso...
>
> My mother-in-law is 81 this year. She's the most opinionated old lady
> I know and I hope to grow up to be just like her. She certainly
> doesn't "need direction" and wouldn't appreciate any if we tried to
> force it on her.

It's probably not a matter of direction, but of knowledge. If we want to find
out about things we google, we use usenet, we email people. This is certainly
not beyond a 96-year-old, but unless somebody previously forced her to get a
computer and use it she probably doesn't do those things. What DO
non-computer people do?

You can't make a decision without facts to base it on, and facts aren't always
easy to come by.

Has everyone here done his or her best to drag elderly friends and relatives
into the computer age? It's amazing what playing solitaire (a really nice
bridge between reality and the computer) can do in reducing the fear and
imparting mouse skills. Then comes other card games. Then email. Then
web-surfing. So far I haven't been able to interest anybody in usenet, even
people younger than me. Still, it's worth a shot.

--
Cheers, Bev
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"Incontinence hotline, can you hold?"
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