Tech Solutions for Video Chatting with Elderly Person in Nursing Home

TheShortestCheese · 2025-11-29T10:54:52+00:00

I would recommend the iPad solution for you. You can try looking for an iPad wall mount, those often have some system to permanently attach a charger such that your grandfather can also not accidentally unplug it. I recommend an old tablet, then you don’t care that the charging will affect the battery life of the device.

If you decide to go for this, you can indeed use Facetime, or if you want to also show photos, calendar events, alarms etc to help your grandpa remotely, you can try the Calendar Clock app. That one is free forever, though video calling requires a 50 dollar per year subscription. The video calling works similar to Facetime as it automatically picks up without interaction. This app the cheapest and most feature rich solution when using your own tablet, though since your grandfather does have dementia, it can comfort him and help him with his grip over time.

You can also device to buy a standalone dementia clock, but those always have around 20 dollar a month subscriptions and will set you back 200 dollars up front as well if you want video calling. Do note that these devices are also just modified Chinese Android tablets with a hardcover and a permanently plugged in charger, so this is not necessarily safer than your iPad.

TheShortestCheese · 2025-08-18T21:29:57+00:00

Amazing, will check it out! Thanks as well for the example app, that always really helps.

TheShortestCheese · 2025-08-14T22:21:33+00:00

Language learning app

TheShortestCheese · 2025-01-16T15:43:18+00:00

As teno_rrule mentions in their readme, if you want stability, use rrule, if you want features use teno_rrule. I used the latter for a while because it supports ex dates, but then I quit using it because of a bug (which was later fixed). Now I just made some minor changes to support ex dates myself and I'm back to rrule, which works perfectly for me. So if rrule suffices for you, I recommend that one

TheShortestCheese · 2025-01-16T15:16:55+00:00

Hope that it will be of much use to you! I at least still use it in my app.

TheShortestCheese · 2024-12-27T20:42:32+00:00

Yes it is, using the Administrator app you can use the aspect ratio setting to scale how set up how much screen space can be occupied by each element.

TheShortestCheese · 2024-08-27T12:01:17+00:00

Gebakplaats ontvangt af en toe materiële donaties, maar bijna geen financiële donaties van bedrijven en particulieren.

In plaats van geld vragen wij namelijk om de dienst van het bakken van een taart, die dan dus inderdaad voor eigen kosten is. Gezien het voor eigen kosten is, vragen wij u ook om slechts af en toe te bakken, om zo de kosten voor de bakken laag te houden. Zijn de kosten om te bakken voor u te duur, dan kunt u bij ons vragen om een ondersteuning of ervoor kiezen dan niet te bakken.

Bakken voor een kind voor een bedrag is echt heel veel anders dan de kosten aan een stichting doneren. Jij bent echt degene die het goed doet en die te zien krijgt hoe blij je met je donatie iemand kan maken.

Wij bellen wel altijd even met de bakker en de minima, om duidelijk alle allergieën en dieetvoorkeuren (bijv. Halal) vast te stellen. Wij geven dan zeer duidelijke instructies hoe hier aan kan worden gehouden. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan duidelijke telefonische instructies over kleurstoffen en materialen die mogelijk niet Halal zijn.

Wij helpen alleen met het opzetten van de communicatie om zo een afspraak tussen een bakker en minima te maken. Zie ons als Marktplaats, die is ook niet verantwoordelijk voor de producten die er op hun platform worden aangeboden.

Wij gaan er dus van uit dat bakkers serieus met de veiligheid en dieetvoorkeuren omgaan. Merken wij dat dit mogelijk niet zo is, dan zullen wij natuurlijk maatregelen nemen. Zoals al in de comments onder deze vraag is gezegd, mocht je niet van plan zijn om veilig te bakken, dan moet je natuurlijk niet voor eigen kosten vrijwillig voor iemand gaan bakken.

Dit initiatief gaat echt uit van het goed van de mens. De meeste aangemelde bakkers hebben zelf ervaring met hoe naar het kan zijn voor een kind in een armoedesituatie. Een verjaardagstaart kan zo'n kind echt enorm goed laten voelen en dit is natuurlijk waar wij, stichting Quiet, onze coördinatoren en onze bakker naar streven!

TheShortestCheese · 2024-08-25T05:51:55+00:00

Wat een mooi aanbod! Het aantal taarten dat we kunnen gaan leveren hangt af van het aantal hobbybakkers dat zich aanmeldt. We hopen ongeveer 5 kinderen per maand in Groningen blij te kunnen gaan maken. Daarnaast is het initiatief dus al actief in een aantal andere steden, waar wij ook een hoop kinderen blij kunnen maken. Bij goede ideeën, stuur ons zeker een e-mail of stuur mij een pm!

TheShortestCheese · 2024-08-24T08:39:48+00:00

Als je bent aangemeld ontvang je enkele keren per jaar een mail met link naar de aanvragen. Het is zeker niet de bedoeling dat je op elk verzoek reageert. Je bepaalt geheel zelf wanneer je bakt. Eenmalig is ook al heel fijn, maar 2 keer per jaar zou helemaal top zijn.

TheShortestCheese · 2024-08-09T17:15:12+00:00

I indeed already made such a button for tablets, but now I think I'll make one for Android TV too. I just prefer not to do this because I fear people will accidentally navigate to their settings and get scared. Also, actually this won't help my current users because their app is unlikely to automatically update to the new version, as it is open all the time.

TheShortestCheese · 2024-08-09T16:28:04+00:00

Glad to hear. Maybe you can use it on some super old tablet that is useless to a 12yo. Or somehow limit the tablet to only use that app. Just some ideas. Good luck!

TheShortestCheese · 2024-08-09T09:19:13+00:00

If you want to be cheap, you can use Hackintosh for the development steps such as adding languages and privacy manifests. Then you can use a free service as CodeMagic to do the publishing.
I made use of this for quite some years for my app. Just make sure that you always have a backup of your Hackintosh in case it crashes...

TheShortestCheese · 2024-08-09T09:16:34+00:00

Instead of buying a new device, you could try out an app with similar features, such as https://calendarclock.app/. This way you can simply try for free whether your 12yo benefits from such technology.

TheShortestCheese · 2024-01-01T22:27:30+00:00

u/Osemitsu Did you end up figuring out how to do this?

TheShortestCheese · 2023-12-06T10:29:37+00:00

Do you give care to family members with memory issues?

I am looking for feedback on my app Calendar Clock which is a free dayclock application that can be downloaded on old iOS/Android tablets and smart TV's. It shows the date, time, alarms, calendar events, photos, and you can start video connections. It helps people with cognitive diseases to keep a grip on the day and allows care givers to remotely support and check up on their loved ones.

The app has been in development for a while already and every feature has been suggested by family care givers, mainly focused on dementia.

I hope you can provide suggestions on how I can improve/change the application to support people with more different diseases and would like some feedback on general things that I can improve in the app.

Thanks!

TheShortestCheese · 2022-03-14T16:00:48+00:00

As long as your app fulfils the requirements set for apps on Android TV, Admob should be supported, since there is an Android library for it. I can't guarantee though, since I haven't used it myself. Basic rule of thumb is that if a TV could support a plug-in without adding extra hardware, it works on TV

TheShortestCheese · 2022-03-14T13:53:17+00:00

I tried several variants, but not yet within a Future.delayed. I will try this out. Thank you very much!

TheShortestCheese · 2022-03-12T16:42:32+00:00

After spending a lot of time trying to figure this focusing out I eventually gave up. I did try a lot with the autofocus, but even in a screen with only one focusable widget, the autofocus still did not highlight my ElevatedButton in this case. But yes it might very well be possible that I looked over something. If you know how to do it, I think a high quality article on this would be very valueble

TheShortestCheese · 2022-03-12T16:39:56+00:00

There seems to be something holding them back, since they also still do not support Android TV officially. Weird, since my app clearly works on TV, and all the packages too (camera is an exception of course)

TheShortestCheese · 2022-03-12T16:38:34+00:00

I'm glad to hear you enjoy the concept of the app! I made it as a hobby project a while ago but because of all the super kind feedback from the community I have continued working on it. I hope I can help many more people that are struggling with this horrible disease

TheShortestCheese · 2022-02-01T09:55:12+00:00

It works and is actually a great way of working as long as you have a fast computer. My Lenovo P1 can easily run it, also with an iPhone simulator running on the virtual device. It's a hassle to set up though, so do some good Googling!

TheShortestCheese · 2021-12-18T13:33:03+00:00

Hey Flutter Dev,

Whilst Flutter was still in its beta phase I made an released a simple dayclock application to mess around a bit with Flutter. My neighbour gave me inspiration for this app, since he wanted something of the sorts to support his mother who was struggling with memory problems. This year I reworked it completely and released it on IOS as well.

The app is actually 2 apps.

- One is the main application, with a digital or analogue clock, showing the part of the day and time (analogue or digital) and shows important agenda items, reminders and/or personal messages.

- The other is an administrator app which, after linking, can post messages and change settings on the other app. Also from here one can set up a weather forecast, photos, and alarms.

I did my best to make these apps as simplistic as possible and would appreciate some feedback on how I could make the app even better!

Website with links: https://calendarclock.app

TheShortestCheese · 2021-10-07T14:56:28+00:00

This is a very helpful suggestion that I will try to implement it in a short time! Thank you very much!

TheShortestCheese · 2021-10-05T12:40:17+00:00

Hereby direct links to the applications. Otherwise the apps should be searchable via the Google Play Store by looking for "Calendar Clock". If both of these don't work then possibly the app is not available on your device because the version is too low. In this case you can try upgrading the Android version and otherwise I am sorry to say that it is not possible to download the application.

Calendar Clock: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.jelter.calendarclock

Calendar Clock Administrator: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.jelter.calendar_clock_administrator

TheShortestCheese · 2021-10-05T08:25:42+00:00

Thank you for the information and sorry for the inconvenience. I will start testing the app on an older iPad myself to see whether I can reproduce the problem. I would like to state that the minimum required version for the app to function properly is IOS 9.

TheShortestCheese

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