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Sigurd · Oct 26, 2024

kelper said:
I use Google calendar along with Jason Savard's excellent Calendar Plus Checker.

I use the former to keep track of where I should be or what I should be doing. My wife uses and old fashioned paper calendar and diary (but she tolerates IT rather than embraces it). I must have a look at Calendar Plus checker.
(In England we have to order prescriptions monthly. Decades ago we could prescribe 6 months supply).

glasskuter · Oct 26, 2024

I forgot to mention @Sigurd, despite all the electronic gadgetry, Nothing beats one of those old big desktop calendars (the kind execs us on their desk with with big squares) for times you're involved in something, but get a thought about something else. If I take a phone call while I'm in the middle of something, I jot down my stopping point so I can go back quickly. Sometimes, it makes sense to use pen and paper. An you always know where that big ol' calendar is.

Take heart that many of us here are facing the same challenges at this stage of our life. Those that aren't soon will. I have had to do a complete 180 in what I can and can't do anymore, both psychically and mentally. My biggest challenge has been changing my mind set and attitude of what's really important now. I don't demand or expect as much of myself and don't stretch myself into as many projects as I used to since I've lost most of my multi-tasking ability.

Edwin · Oct 26, 2024

glasskuter said:
Nothing beats one of those old big desktop calendars...

A digital version for Desktop is even better!

Sigurd · Oct 26, 2024

glasskuter said:
Take heart that many of us here are facing the same challenges at this stage of our life.

I should perhaps clarify my OP a bit. I am having and being occasionally frustrated by the memory problems common to most 85 year olds and wondered if there were any useful Aps around.
I am fortunate in that I don't have a clinical memory or other problem. I have seen and dealt with many people who do, and like the majority of people that is my number one illness fear.

Ghot · Oct 26, 2024

antspants said:
He couldn’t of thought it if he didn’t have one.

Sigurd said:
I should perhaps clarify my OP a bit. I am having and being occasionally frustrated by the memory problems common to most 85 year olds and wondered if there were any useful Aps around.
I am fortunate in that I don't have a clinical memory or other problem. I have seen and dealt with many people who do, and like the majority of people that is my number one illness fear.

I'd say your memory is working fine.
You only spelled one word incorrectly... Apps.

If I can do that well when I'm 85, I'll be a happy camper.

Heck, I'm only 68 and the other day, I forgot my phone number. LOL

cereberus · Oct 26, 2024

Ghot said:
Heck, I'm only 68 and the other day, I forgot my phone number. LOL

What's a phone?

glasskuter · Oct 26, 2024

Edwin said:
A digital version for Desktop is even better!

Not for me for a note on the fly. If I'm doing something, get a thought about something else, I don't want my train of thought broken on what I was doing in the first place. I can jot down my thought and not break away from what I'm doing easier than I can open an app. But if I worked like you do using multiple screens and multiple desktops, it would be different. But I'm still a plain ol' single screen user. I know, I know. I'm living in the 80's. But things were so simple in the 80s. Call me "Eighties Lady".

Seriously though, I never went to multiple monitors due to lack of workspace as well as power available in this room. I had to jake-leg some of my power onto a different breaker to run what crap I have and it ain't pretty. We do what we gotta do with what we have. It's a real wonder I haven't burned the house down.

Edwin · Oct 26, 2024

Ghot said:
Heck, I'm only 68 and the other day, I forgot my phone number. LOL

When we were young, we memorized everybody's phone number! Now I can't remember sh*t cuz you don't have to dial 'em!
I still remember our home phone number as a kid, though!

Edwin · Oct 26, 2024

glasskuter said:
I'm living in the 80's. But things were so simple in the 80s. Call me "Eighties Lady".

I loved the 80's! Great music, good movies, cool clothes, cute girls........

glasskuter said:
It's a real wonder I haven't burned the house down.

jimbo45 · Oct 26, 2024

@Edwin

70's music and fashion -- superior in every way -- loved Dept.S and Jason King (peter Wyngarde plus all those delightful ladies). Hairstyles and dress far more colourful and exciting than any of the "grunge stuff now" where youngsters all go around in "rubbish Etsy cast offs" and looking like failed ( i.e dishonorbourly discharged} military people with not a single tidy pressed garment and probably (at least IMHO) the "most slovenly dressed" people in history. I like casual dress but why can't it be smart and stunning !!!!.

Cheers

jimbo

Edwin · Oct 26, 2024

Decided to try Google Keep Notes again..., has a nice scrollable/editable Widget...
Sync is always there too!

trevo · Oct 26, 2024

Edwin said:
Decided to try Google Keep Notes again.

I use it a lot and it's mostly fine, but I wish one could organize lists in alphabetical order.

Edwin · Oct 26, 2024

trevo said:
I wish one could organize lists in alphabetical order.

Yeah..., drag-to-order is all!

Edwin · Oct 26, 2024

Edwin said:
... has a nice scrollable/editable Widget...

Pretty handy...

Sigurd · Oct 28, 2024

Ghot said:
You only spelled one word incorrectly... Apps.

I still think in terms of Programs (Software) and Programmes (Theatre). Never been sure if that was correct, UK v USA spelling or just my use. Apps has, according to OED, been around since 1980 but only adapted by my biological computer about 5 years ago.

Senecio · Oct 28, 2024

For many of us 'elderly' people, it is not so much a memory issue, as a retrieval issue. Quite often if offered a few alternative answers, I have no problem choosing the right one, when I have failed to recall the name of something or someone. To counter this I try to present myself with new problems. This very forum is perhaps one of the best 'software solutions' for me, as I attempt to get my head around some of the problem solving which is offered by people such as @Bree and @zbook for instance, although there are many others. I challenge myself to keep my two PCs (and those of a few relatives) in working order and so far that does help. I also make a point of taking a sub-lingual vitamin B12 - specifically methyl cobalamine - from time to time (because low B12 has been found to be associated with dementia - not too clear whether cause or effect). Keeping reasonably fit helps too, as does socializing with family and friends. I hope this is useful.

Bree · Oct 28, 2024

Senecio said:
This very forum is perhaps one of the best 'software solutions' for me, as I attempt to get my head around some of the problem solving which is offered by people such as @Bree and @zbook for instance, although there are many others. I challenge myself to keep my two PCs (and those of a few relatives) in working order and so far that does help. I also make a point of taking a sub-lingual vitamin B12 - specifically methyl cobalamine - from time to time (because low B12 has been found to be associated with dementia....

Thank you, I'm no 'spring chicken' myself

You might also take Vitamin D supplements (recommended anyway to keep our old bones sound). Apparently it can also help keep dementia at bay.

Taking vitamin D could help prevent dementia, study finds - Exeter Biomedical Research Centre

An NIHR Exeter Biomedical Research Centre supported study has found that taking vitamin D supplements may help ward off dementia.

www.exeterbrc.nihr.ac.uk

TonyCzar · Oct 28, 2024

Bree said:
Thank you, I'm no 'spring chicken' myself

You might also take Vitamin D supplements (recommended anyway to keep our old bones sound). Apparently it can also help keep dementia at bay.

Taking vitamin D could help prevent dementia, study finds - Exeter Biomedical Research Centre

An NIHR Exeter Biomedical Research Centre supported study has found that taking vitamin D supplements may help ward off dementia.

www.exeterbrc.nihr.ac.uk

Ozempic as well.

Senecio · Oct 28, 2024

Bree said:
Thank you, I'm no 'spring chicken' myself

You might also take Vitamin D supplements (recommended anyway to keep our old bones sound). Apparently it can also help keep dementia at bay.

Taking vitamin D could help prevent dementia, study finds - Exeter Biomedical Research Centre

An NIHR Exeter Biomedical Research Centre supported study has found that taking vitamin D supplements may help ward off dementia.

www.exeterbrc.nihr.ac.uk

Oh yes, I have a regime of vitamin and mineral supplements and Vitamin D is very definitely the most important of the lot. However, it wasn't my intention to bore people with yet another 'here's a long list of really great supplements' so I stuck to the one which actually seemed to make a difference to mental ability (especially for those of us on Proton Pump Inhibitors such as Omeprazole and Lansoprazole).

Edit...
I should add for those who live in sunnier climes than the UK, that vitamin D made by the skin when sunlight is strong enough is much better than any vitamin D supplement (and has no risk of overdose).

Sigurd · Oct 28, 2024

Edwin said:
I loved the 80's! Great music, good movies, cool clothes, cute girls........

I preferred the 60s though since I can remember them I must have missed something. Music, movies, cute girl (aka my wife).

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