Constant technology changes throw seniors a curve, and add to caregivers' load

[mike_c]

13. yes, just FINDING solutions is a pain in the butt

Nothing ever comes with a manual anymore, either. The notion that consumer software is intuitive enough to "just work" without documentation is insulting, IMO.

Anyway, I find myself becoming more and more crotchety about devices, UIs, and technological expectations. It's ironic that in my last decade of teaching, I knew way more than my students about hardware, software, and programming, but their apparently instinctive reliance upon menus and UIs made me a dinosaur and them "power users." I remember once not too long ago when I was showing a colleague and his grad student how to perform a particular data analysis, the student got flustered and his prof had to explain: "That's a command line interface."