My wife (Lou) works in a local residential care home doing activities with people with Alzheimer's and dementia, and a couple of residents have expressed an interest in taking photos as an activity. This is also an activity which could be combined with some of the other activities (eg. gardening, painting, cooking) in order to document them for the residents and their family members.
Lou is therefore looking for a digital camera for the residents to use, which is cheap to buy and easy/effective to use. It needs to be a camera, as opposed to a mobile phone with a camera on it, as a mobile phone holds no remembrance value for the majority of the residents, and the camera would ideally have a viewfinder (as an older, film camera would have had), so that it would be similar to a camera the resident using it may have had in the past.
It would not need to be anything amazing and would ideally not be vaulable/expensive to buy, as there is a strong possibility that it could/will get dropped and damaged, it would just need to be able to be operated easily by someone with memory problems and who may also have joint mobility problems too. A point and shoot, basically, which can take a decent image indoors by someone with (possibly) shakey hands. Lou can then deal with the uploading side onto a computer for archive and sharing purposes.
Does anyone have an old camera sitting unused/unloved in a drawer/cupboard now that they have upgraded to something more modern, that they would be willing to part with for not too much cash?
Please drop me a PM with details if so, thanks for reading.
Lou is therefore looking for a digital camera for the residents to use, which is cheap to buy and easy/effective to use. It needs to be a camera, as opposed to a mobile phone with a camera on it, as a mobile phone holds no remembrance value for the majority of the residents, and the camera would ideally have a viewfinder (as an older, film camera would have had), so that it would be similar to a camera the resident using it may have had in the past.
It would not need to be anything amazing and would ideally not be vaulable/expensive to buy, as there is a strong possibility that it could/will get dropped and damaged, it would just need to be able to be operated easily by someone with memory problems and who may also have joint mobility problems too. A point and shoot, basically, which can take a decent image indoors by someone with (possibly) shakey hands. Lou can then deal with the uploading side onto a computer for archive and sharing purposes.
Does anyone have an old camera sitting unused/unloved in a drawer/cupboard now that they have upgraded to something more modern, that they would be willing to part with for not too much cash?
Please drop me a PM with details if so, thanks for reading.
