Mobile Phones for the elder gentleman
A conversation I was having with my Dad the other day on the phone got me thinking a lot about his generation. Despite his incredible mathematical and financial ability, my Dad still has trouble using his mobile phone. According to an article published by The Independent online, this type of problem is only going to grow over the next ten years as the aging process begins to take hold. Mobile technology has to adapt.
This got me thinking even further. I’m so used to using mobile broadband abroad, at home, in bed, in the kitchen and on the train that I never stopped to think about how my age will start to affect my ability to use this technology. Yet if my Dad is already having trouble accessing his messages and trying to keep up with touch screen technology, where will I be in thirty years time?
My Dad already has problems with hearing conversations over the phone (not just because of his age; he deafened his ear drums beyond repair at all the rock concerts he went to growing up) and despite turning the phone up to full volume when talking he still gets frustrated.
I think that although Smartphone technology is wonderful stuff, it needs to now go a bit further and become more user-friendly to the older generation. In ten years time I might need help in using the phone and I don’t want to be as frustrated as my Dad sometimes gets when sending a text message.
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