The apple iPad is a device that is excellent for connecting the elderly to the digital world. The elderly people will not be able to cope with the  fast growing digital world if not for the iPad devices.

The apple’s iPhone’s hypes  is not just because of the hardware but also the wonderful, clever and useful software applications. These apps can easily be downloaded and installed from the iTunes store. Most of these apps are free and the other cost only a nominal amount.

These apps are not just for the youngsters, teens, middle aged people for entertainment, information etc but also for the elderly. Because apple’s iPad provides all these app it what makes this device top rated. These apps can also be customized according to the needs of the elders. Here are a few apps for the elders.

ABC

All the favorite television series can now be played on your iPad. The ABC player has to be downloaded to the device and start watching all the ABC series for free on iPad at any place and anytime. The excellent quality of the iPad videos is evident through this app. The audio quality of the iPad speaker is also great and so gives your elderly good serial watching experience.

Netflix

This is one of the world’s best TV subscription service for watching Movies and TV episode on the phone. This mobile app gives best experience anywhere and at any time. Download this free app and you can start watching thousands of apps on your Phone. Most of the people use Netflix to order movies on DVD’s. But with this app you can now get a huge number of TV shows and Movies directly streamed to the ipad and you can watch it immediately. This app is free but you will have to pay for a the Netflix account for video downloads.

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NPR

With this app you can get free access to the NPR programming. You can read to or listen to your favorite NPR stories and even share them with other. You can hear live from hundreds of NPR stations.

iBooks

This is the ebook app from apple. If your elderly love reading then this will surely love this app. There are free books available in iTunes that you can download. Use the controls of the app to customize the reading fonts, lighting etc. Though the ebook collection of Apple is not large like the Amazon, you can download  a  fee reader app from Kindle and connect it to Amazon and you can read the kindle purchases.

Google Earth

This app is very useful to the elderly as they often get direction challenged. iPad has GPS capabilities and using this the location of the user can be known and how to reach to a certain place can be known with this app. Roads, places, photos and many more things can be browsed. The 3D imaging available for versions of iPad2 and later make the experience much nicer.

ZINIO

This app lets users read top magazines globally. This app gives users access to many global titles, users can read or download issues of their favorite magazines and also sync them to their PC or other devices. This pp includes features like full colred pages, rich media, multimedia content form select magazines that are exclusive. After trying out the free selections of the magazines you can buy their paid subscriptions.

The Weather Channel

Now you can find the weather conditions and forecasts of any location in any area with your iPhone and the weather channel app.  The weather forecast are detailed, accurate and fast, the localized maps provides users with features like radar sweeps, weather bulletins for storms, and cyclone tracking. The location management of this app is easy and so you can save or edit the places you like. The app also offers local weather forecast and videos. This app has user friendly interface and is also beautiful looking.

 

Vituoso

This is wonderful music app which can accessed through ipad. Thid app is an amazing instrument for iPhone and iPad users. With this app you can learn to play piano anytime and anywhere .It is ideal for those who intend to learn piano or can just have plain fun with this app. It is easy to use but at the same time it is professional too. It has 88 keys of sample pianos, double keyboard that is optional, duet mode, soft mode, key labels, chords can be played with all the fingers, keys can be rolled by sliding the fingers, retinal display that is optimized and it is unlimitedly free.

 

Epicurious

If you love food then you will love this app, it will satisfy your hunger for food and nutrition app on iPad.With this app you can find the recipes and their ingredients. Build a shopping list with this app.
You can browse popular recipes of food and drink, learn what is healthy and seasonally available foods etc. You can save the recipes you like and also share them with your friends. When you save the recipes it will help you shop easily and using this app you can tick off the items you have completed purchasing.

 

These are a few iPad apps for your elderly. Download them on their phone and let them use these apps and enjoy life.