Thread: Special kind of Fire Tablet case?
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Old 08-21-2019, 11:26 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Barbara1955 View Post
Why would you want to disable the touch?
Watching someone with even mild dementia try to work a touchscreen (swipe, tap, pinch, tap-n-hold, fling) would not be a pretty sight. Even when not trying to work it, just accidentally bumping into it, they could easily send an app to some unknown and unexpected screen that would totally confuse someone with dementia. We're talking people who have trouble reading their wristwatch. Using a touchscreen? Might as well ask them to pilot a fighter jet while you're at it. Dementia is a very sad thing.

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Give her something to listen too.
Dementia + hearing loss + concentration needed for an audiobook = not a pretty sight either. Music is better, especially old songs that they know. Old TV shows that they used to watch, now on rerun, are good too. For a while. But pretty soon, even that gets to be too much for them to process.
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