Having volunteered at a major "Assisted-Living" facility in the past, I've seen some of the software they use for the residents. There was one in particular that seemed to work very well, albeit it didn't have many options in terms of customization, it got the job done. It was a GUI overlay/app suite for windows, all the icons/fonts were huge, and everything was fairly accessible. It included a word processing app, email, web browsing, etc. It also had a section for games which linked to several flash games, but nothing special. I trained about 10 or so residents how to use it, all of which had little or no previous PC-usage experience. Afaik, after a good 6 months it was still up and running with no problems at all. Sadly, I can't remember the name of such software since it's been several years now...but it does exist. If anyone were really interested, I could call and ask for the name...but with this comment being so buried, no one is probably going to care:p
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Having volunteered at a major "Assisted-Living" facility in the past, I've seen some of the software they use for the residents. There was one in particular that seemed to work very well, albeit it didn't have many options in terms of customization, it got the job done. It was a GUI overlay/app suite for windows, all the icons/fonts were huge, and everything was fairly accessible. It included a word processing app, email, web browsing, etc. It also had a section for games which linked to several flash games, but nothing special. I trained about 10 or so residents how to use it, all of which had little or no previous PC-usage experience. Afaik, after a good 6 months it was still up and running with no problems at all. Sadly, I can't remember the name of such software since it's been several years now...but it does exist. If anyone were really interested, I could call and ask for the name...but with this comment being so buried, no one is probably going to care :p