What are some easy-to-understand ways to teach the elderly that they can't use a smartphone?

With the development of society, the standard of living, medical level of progress, the aging of society has become more and more aggravated. The life of the elderly compared to the past is much richer, you can dance square dance, you can practice tai chi, you can learn calligraphy, painting, you can enroll in photography classes to learn photography. However, today's modernized society, there are still many elderly people who do not know how to use a cell phone, and in the face of advanced electronic products, the elderly appear to be at a loss.

If you want the elderly to learn how to use a cell phone, younger people need to do a lot more homework, as well as have more patience to teach the elderly to use a cell phone. First of all, in the selection of cell phones, try to pick the elderly machine, because the elderly due to the flower eye to see things recognize words are very difficult, the elderly machine screen, buttons are relatively large, the function of the display is also relatively simple, so that the elderly can be more easily to learn how to use. Secondly, in some cell phone functions, software operation, to patiently teach the elderly step by step, if necessary, you can prepare some enlarged operation steps printed on paper, convenient for the elderly to learn against the steps; the memory of the elderly is a little poorer, there may be places where you need to explain a number of times before you slowly remember, so you must have patience. After teaching the elderly operating steps, but also to often contact with the elderly, the elderly have to use the problem at any time to communicate to solve, to help the elderly consolidate the operation of the learned.

After a long time of use, the elderly are generally skilled in the use of cell phones, cell phones have almost become a necessity for people, the elderly will use the cell phone will also make their lives more convenient.

But in the information age where cell phones are everywhere, we should also try to put down our cell phones and take time out to spend more time with the elderly, companionship is the most important for the elderly, if we are around the elderly instead of using the cell phone all the time, it may make the elderly feel more lonely. So don't let the cell phone make us and the people around us become more distant, we have to do our best to give the elderly more care, so that the elderly in their old age can be happy life.