Greetings forums, first off sorry for the long first post.
I joined in hopes of getting some advice for a good friend, she will be 91 next month. She doesn't have any children or close family and currently resides in assisted living.
A little about her, she is sharp and intelligent, though she gets lonely in her
facility and that puts her in quite the depressed state and she doesn't want to
function.
My girlfriend and I visit her when we can, we were neighbors before she went to assisted living.
I have set her up a computer for her to use, she is fairly blind and generally needs above a 50 size font to read(on a 32 inch monitor)She mentioned she wanted to learn coding.
She is hearing impaired and also isn't super mobile, but she still gets around with a walker. She fell and broke a hip and wrist about 6 months ago.
She struggles using the computer but she is learning chess right now and can on her better days finish a game, which seems to really brighten her spirits.
Also got her some nice headphones so she listens to jazz on the computer, though she can't hear it all that well.
I was thinking there might be online resources that someone might point me towards, maybe some here on these forums are visually impaired as well and might have some recommendations on apps or ways to better use a computer.
Hoping that her having some outlet (the computer) she might get less depressed.
I am kinda at a loss as to where to start, I have contacted the local institute for the blind and they have provided very limited help, they ended up giving her this rather large outdated "reader" which she can read books and newspapers and such, though she doesn't use it. It's like 60 lbs and sits in her corner.
This might be the absolute wrong forums, and if so I am sorry and feel free to delete my post. My intentions are well
-E
I joined in hopes of getting some advice for a good friend, she will be 91 next month. She doesn't have any children or close family and currently resides in assisted living.
A little about her, she is sharp and intelligent, though she gets lonely in her
facility and that puts her in quite the depressed state and she doesn't want to
function.
My girlfriend and I visit her when we can, we were neighbors before she went to assisted living.
I have set her up a computer for her to use, she is fairly blind and generally needs above a 50 size font to read(on a 32 inch monitor)She mentioned she wanted to learn coding.
She is hearing impaired and also isn't super mobile, but she still gets around with a walker. She fell and broke a hip and wrist about 6 months ago.
She struggles using the computer but she is learning chess right now and can on her better days finish a game, which seems to really brighten her spirits.
Also got her some nice headphones so she listens to jazz on the computer, though she can't hear it all that well.
I was thinking there might be online resources that someone might point me towards, maybe some here on these forums are visually impaired as well and might have some recommendations on apps or ways to better use a computer.
Hoping that her having some outlet (the computer) she might get less depressed.
I am kinda at a loss as to where to start, I have contacted the local institute for the blind and they have provided very limited help, they ended up giving her this rather large outdated "reader" which she can read books and newspapers and such, though she doesn't use it. It's like 60 lbs and sits in her corner.
This might be the absolute wrong forums, and if so I am sorry and feel free to delete my post. My intentions are well
-E
