Not being able to visit your family who live across the country/globe is sad, but not being able to contact them first because you cannot remember or figure out how to call them is even sadder. Social isolation is one of the biggest issues facing the aging community in England, and with the current COVID-19 lockdown this problem is only worsening.
These days it's easy to forget that a lot of the technology that we use intuitively is very hard to use for the older generations who grew up with cord phones and black and white TVs. The inspiration to this project was my grandmother, who due to her deteriorating vision is finding it progressively harder to navigate the ever-changing menu screens and small fonts on her mobile phone to stay in touch with us.
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