This document summarizes a presentation about using tablet devices like iPads and Android tablets in health and social care settings. It discusses how tablets can be used to empower those receiving care and their caregivers through applications that allow communication, learning, creativity, and entertainment. Examples of specific apps are provided. Advice is offered on getting started with tablets, including setting up WiFi, finding apps, and ensuring security. Common questions from attendees are listed around connectivity, accessibility, and app recommendations.

1. How to fight the credit crunch or do
more with lessShow & Tell:
Tablet Devices for Health &
Social Care
Miles Maier Twitter @LasaICT
Paul Webster Twitter @watfordgap

2. About Lasa
• 30 years of trusted advice
• Knowledgebase, Suppliers Directory,
Connecting Care, advicelocal
www.lasa.org.uk/
• Welfare Rights
www.rightsnet.org.uk

3. Connecting Care
• Helping social care providers make better
use of tech
• Tech health-checks
• Show and tell sessions
www.connectingcare.org.uk

4. Connecting Care
• Many articles on using tech in social care,
e.g.
– There is an app for that!
– Staying safe online
– Argos training with tablet devices
– On-line networks for carers
– Sources of skills and learning for social care
orgs
– How to plan best use of ICT resources

5. Take-Aways
• Hands on experience
• Using iPads & Android tablets in social
care
• Signposting to useful resources, ie
Connecting Care, social media guidelines, etc

6. Question?
Hands up if you….
•Use a smartphone?
•Use an iPad?
•Use another tablet device - Android or
Windows?

7. 30 million people use or own a Tablet PC in UK
Approximately 50% are Apple iPads
59% use to check social networks, 49% for on
line shopping, 75% get their news first on line
More ‘social’, lightweight and easy to start using
Affordable £79 for Android £250 for iPad mini
They are 'The Internet', without having to worry
and bother about 'going on the internet'
Customise front screen (or whole launcher) to
just display the apps / shortcuts you use
Touchscreen Tech - Background

8. Examples:
•Stay in touch - Skype, email, text
•News - BBC, online papers, Feedly
•Shopping - Tesco, Ocado, Amazon, etc
•Story-telling - Storehouse
•Books - large text and audio
•Creativity - painting, pottery, music
•Entertainment - TV, films, music
Practical uses for tablets

9. Technology in Caring
• Empower both the person being cared for and
the carer
• Support the carer in their caring role
• Give remote access to e-learning
• Retain social integration through on-line
networks
• Networks to facilitate care co-ordination
• Helps carers who find time a barrier to keeping
connected

10. Carers Networks
See - http://
connectingcare.org.uk/articles/detail/online-tools-reduce-isolation-fo
r-carers
•Carer+ - http://carerplus.eu/
•Babble - https://babble.carers.org/
•Chill4Us Carers - http://www.chill4uscarers.co.uk/forums/index.php
•Discover4Carers - http://www.discover4carers.eu/
•Jointly - https://www.jointlyapp.com/#welcome
•Circle - http://nottinghamcircle.org/
•Connect2 - https://suttonmencapblog.wordpress.com/connect2/

11. Getting Started with a Tablet
Switching on and how to use a tablet
Navigating, swiping, Pinch & Zoom
Getting around the tablet – swiping screens & pull
down notification bar, switching between apps
How to find a wireless network
Settings – widgets that set Brightness, Wifi,
Bluetooth & GPS when not needed as these can
quickly eat up resources
Attaching a Keyboard
Software is loaded onto a tablet as an 'app' from the
Google Play Store or Apple Store
Locking the tablet

12. Getting Started with a Tablet
Most apps are free to download, although beware
of free apps that are loaded with adverts. Read
reviews from other people or try & then delete.
Chargeable apps are usually only £2 or £3.
Set up apps to 'Auto Update' to make sure you have
latest changes. Some will need confirmation if
permissions change (e.g. to use maps)
Regularly review installed apps to maintain space
and stop tablet being slow. A tool like 'AppMgrIII'
will move them to SD Card to save space.
Safety & Security
Anti-virus – Protect against Apps & Links. Still need
to be careful – 'Lookout' is a good Anti-Virus App

13. What questions do you have?
Write questions on a Post It note
Examples:
•Where do I go for help?
•Security?
•Accessibility?
•Which are the best free apps?

14. Things to do
What would you like to do on your
tablet?
Examples:
•News
•Shopping
•Learning
•Music and Radio
•Games

15. Our 5 favourite websites
• AbilityNet – making technology accessible for all
• www.abilitynet.org.uk
• Digital Unite – help getting online
• www.digitalunite.com
• Community How To – doing more with digital
• www.communityhowto.com
• Technology Trust – donated hardware and software
• www.tt-exchange.org
• Happus.eu – refurbished laptops, iPads, accessibility kit
• www.happus.eu

16. Miles Maier
Paul Webster
www.lasa.org.uk
pwebster@lasa.org.uk
@LasaICT
@watfordgap