Anyway, you will be happy with your smartphone!

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23.12.2024

Franziska Bechtold

Older adults fall into trouble when they use their smartphones. But apps with WhatsApp can use the quality of life on other scaffolding.

“Kan I da was kaputt machen?” or: “Was ist, wenn ich was Falsches drücke?” Diese Sätze hört man oft, wenn man alteren Familienmitgliedern das Smartphone works will or man hat sie fellleicht sogar schon selbst gesagt. Häufig fell into a hole Weihnachtsfeiertagenif all the sister bowls and man seine Fragen zum Handige were loosened kann. We can use a new device for great or other years from Baum, because we have been given a new life first.

Useful and software that works as quickly as possible – then it’s time to perform an update function or other functions, if man knows. That is frustrating and the Versuchung is great, if only it does not succeed – for everything, as Familienmitglieder nervt respond to Nachfragen. Make sure you can use your smartphone smartphones with more capabilities WhatsApp die The quality is very extensive. That’s a good thing to study.

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It could all be that a smartphone makes contact with others

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The offensive problem is that there is a problem schnellen, einfachen Kommunikation. Eine Schweizer Study from 2021die Häufigkeit social contact zu Family and Friends at Personen über 65 zunehmen kann.

Gegen Einsamkeit and social isolation can help the functionality of WhatsApp and other apps. It is best to die Leader of the Servicestelle “digitalSenior:innen”, Edith Simolof the future zone: “Für the Child and Single Generation is toll. You can granny it or mutter it if you integrate it into your Alltag.”

If people no longer know what to do, it’s worth letting them know that you want to report this. If you often make more phone calls in Anspruch, this is a short description or a photo that will be displayed quickly.

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Stärker am family life together

So a further positive effect will be created: Teilhabe. A study on social media in the alternative version of 2022 dear, that’s one thing stärkeres Zugehörigkeitsgefühl zur Gemeinschaft anyway. Gerade, we are a WhatsApp group with everyone Familienmitgliedern gibt, man kann ich ausgeschlossen fühlen, when man does not have the Möglichkeit, Teil davon zu sein. “Solche Gruppen brings uncanny fell Nutzen. Even if the digital human is not that fit, the human can still mitlese,” said Simöl.

Man did not take his own photos, he is a family group teilzunehmen

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In the area Motivation phase den Umgang with a new Handy to learn, it is a tough Zugpferd. In this day and age, it is a fact that people use their smartphones on a regular basis. “The smartphone is the contact between the environment and the environment,” says Simöl.

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Children’s sparrows in Eltern were beibringen

If these parts are in the hole, a re-ordering can be for all purposes. Learning can lead to frustration if it is no longer possible to work. Help family members respond at the time snippets are generated. “Children have a long life with the rest of life. If Erwachsene is a shy person to recognize, the mother was not assured, or wenn man is fine 3-mal erklärt hat“, weiß Simöl.

Manchen has fallen, patient as it turned out. It’s not important. “Gerade am Anfang ist die Begleitung wichtig, bis man eine gewisse Security erreicht hat,” says the Expertin. Wer von Begin a good Unterstützung Thereafter, we would be better at making Fortschritte and would become more and more eager, nor would we learn any more.

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On the website of the digital services Senior: I found a list of boats that ship with a gütesiegel. An Auswahl:

• A1 Senior Academy: A1 offers special services for people over 60 years of age who will know a number of special apps or video telephony with their smartphone.
• Senior College: Einzelkurse in Wien, with the man with his own smartphone who can learn
• handykurse.at: Ausführliche Schulungen in der Steiermark, in Südburgenland and in eastern Carinthia
• SeniorInnenUNI: The SeniorInnenUNI of the IMC Fachhochschule in Krems is about a Lehrangebot in the 4th semester, which is aimed at all seniors who do their work and make more images

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If you have a new smartphone for your own all-tag, the digital image for seniors is one of the best-selling components. “It was one of those challenges that was possible in our digital world, but could be a zukommen,” said Simöl.

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Keep the documents that are there Ausweis and pine digital Impfpass, Online banking, Parkscheine Oder Zugtickets find a man on Handy. Even if the man is not useless, the most lying man is in the Zeitung or the Führt Gespräche-dag. Since the technical knowledge is good, it is wise to activate a discussion system and understand the topics that are not described here that man is not familiar with.