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haertig · 06-26-2020, 10:07 PM

Thanks for the ideas. Picture books would be my choice too, but the limitation I have is that the elderly person is in a senior facility and there is no visitation now due to coronavirus. So I am talking about reading either over an Alexa "drop-in" via Amazon Echo devices, or over a Zoom video chat. Pictures can be shared over Zoom, and I might try playing with that. But I'm thinking that most likely I will be able to do audio-only reading. Trying to watch book pictures on a computer or tablet might be too much confusion for someone with dementia. The staff at the senior facility would set up the Zoom chat, but then the person I would be reading to is left on their own to "watch" the Zoom chat after initial setup by the staff. I'm not sure how a picture book (via screen sharing) would work in that environment. Maybe. Or maybe not.

06-26-2020, 10:07 PM	#7
haertig Wizard Posts: 1,899 Karma: 31522252 Join Date: Sep 2017 Device: PW3, Fire HD8 Gen7, Moto G7, Sansa Clip v2, Ruizu X26	Thanks for the ideas. Picture books would be my choice too, but the limitation I have is that the elderly person is in a senior facility and there is no visitation now due to coronavirus. So I am talking about reading either over an Alexa "drop-in" via Amazon Echo devices, or over a Zoom video chat. Pictures can be shared over Zoom, and I might try playing with that. But I'm thinking that most likely I will be able to do audio-only reading. Trying to watch book pictures on a computer or tablet might be too much confusion for someone with dementia. The staff at the senior facility would set up the Zoom chat, but then the person I would be reading to is left on their own to "watch" the Zoom chat after initial setup by the staff. I'm not sure how a picture book (via screen sharing) would work in that environment. Maybe. Or maybe not.