We’re proud to report that the age record has been broken in Jewish Care Explore, a Karten Centre, in the month of October.
We provide our mainstream technology training and support service to older members of the community as well as any adults with mild to moderate disabilities. As such, the age range was quite wide already, going from 22 to 94, with a median age of around 68.
This was pushed even further this October, when Justin signed up for a new membership. Justin is a passionate photographer who has captured on (digital) film many of the most cherished moments of the community. He also owns PhotoShop, which he uses to retouch or improve his photos.
He signed up because he wanted to print some of the photos he had taken – his old dot-matrix printer had become unreliable. He also discovered that he could do some basic editing on our computers, using the built-in Windows 10 app.
Being a very active, gregarious and energetic man, we were very surprised to find out that he was, in fact, 96 years old, having been born in 1923.
We were even more surprised when, less than a week later, David joined our service, and broke the record again, having been born about a month earlier than Justin!
David is well-equipped with technology, owning an iPhone, iPad and laptop (and that’s just what he’s shown us). We provide beginner and intermediate courses for learning how to use these devices, but these weren’t necessary for our latest member.
What he was looking for was support in using technology independently. Many Explore members are familiar with technology but like to have support in case they have a question or a problem pops up.
In his case, this meant sorting out issues as the they came up, such as the Safari browser accidentally going into split view or changing some settings on the iPhone.
He also wrote some DVDs as a means of distributing a lecture he has co-authored. We, of course, mentioned creating a channel as an alternative to easily sharing videos. He seemed very interested – perhaps soon YouTube will be breaking a new record as well?
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