Was planning to give to her solely for health tracking options. She’s not too great with technology and eyesight ain’t the greatest to use text typing on watch to respond to people. Also doesn’t quite workout much so don’t really know if step tracking is much useful even. What the watch would do primarily would be sleep tracking and heart rate monitoring. A friend of mine suggested to get a yearly heart checkup (ECG, tmt, etc) instead of investing in the watch since it’s anyways not a medical grade thing and I am skeptical now about how to go about it. Anyone with suggestions? Btw planning a 41mm Series 8 in case if that’s important.
Apple Watches are fantastic assistive tech. youll need to help set it up and also make sure it’s regularly updated - if the opine auto updates and the watch doesn’t, for instance, they stop communicating. Probably turn off sounds and have it vibrate instead. Otherwise they’re super easy.
Things that might be particularly useful for a 60yo teacher whose not very into tech:
- countdowns - whisper ”5 min countdown” to it while holding button in when asking students to do something or to remind yourself to check the stove while cooking. Extremely useful and very discreet as only you feel the alert.
- calendar and reminders can be super useful. For my kids I put their school schedules (each lesson) on the watch and set a watch face that shows it and it helps them get to the right place at the right time.
- fun watch faces that you can change for different days/events.
- feel phone ringing even when phone is elsewhere.
- text msg pop up. might need to set focus and VIPs so not disturbjng
- security of fall detection etc