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I've managed to teach my parents of 70 how to use their iPad. They got the hang of it in 5 minutes and these were the people who couldn't figure out how to play a VCR for decades (eventually had to use stickers to guide them, but that's a different story).
I've started with the golden rules (as the #1 fear of elderly is that they get lost or break the thing)
1) the round button on the screen takes you back to the tiles. No matter where you are. Even when the device is "off"
2) the arrow on the lefthandcorner (of an app) takes you back to the previous page.
3) you open a "book/video/message" with the tiles on the screen. (they pretty soon figured out which app does what)
In the beginning I've configured the ipad to be easy to use of course.
They only have 1 screen with apps. I've hidden the settings and such in a folder on a different screen.
I've disabled the passcode.
Made the "lock" appears after 4 hours.
I've changed the side witch to lock rotation and put it in portrait.
Later they've figured out the volume, lock rotation and such. They've learnt how to use facebook, imessage and facetime themselves within a week.
Once they understood that "they can't break things", they aren't afraid to experiment themselves.
They still can't install apps, or use advanced features. But then again, they only read the news, watch videos, show off the latest pics of their granddaughter, do some chatting and check on facebook. Just like 90% of the elderly population.
And they understand that if they can't connect, it's the "black box" that is broken again, because "the iPad never fails." And I have to tell them to pull the plug on their modem and reconnect it (now that excuse of a modem is on a timer and resets every night. So those emergency calls only occurs once in awhile)
(oh. now they use iPhones too. "it's like a small version of the iPad!")
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