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[quote=Anonymous]What a thoughtful project! You’ve had a lot of good suggestions already. But a definite second to everything offered digitally from his local library. My mother and I are both chronically ill, and it’s been revolutionary to be able to check out ebooks and audiobooks or read the latest magazines and newspapers, all from home.

Games can be a matter of personal preference. I love the mindless “match the colors” games and my mother loves Words With Friends, and neither of us enjoys the other’s activity. For the match-type games, I’ve gravitated toward one called “Home Design” because I’ve been able to play thousands of levels without spending money or watching ads.

Don’t know whether there’s an app equivalent, but Animal Crossing was my mother’s sanity saver when she was locked down in her retirement home during the pandemic. The chance to run around a virtual space, talk to the game characters, and carry out discrete tasks gave some semblance of the real-world life that she was missing.

I love crosswords and sudoku, but personally I prefer those on paper and would be annoyed trying to do them electronically. But again, personal preference. Some of my older relatives enjoy word search puzzles, and there are a few app versions of either word or picture search.

This isn’t related to the iPad, but given his history with woodworking, you might also ask him if he’d have any interest in handicrafts that he can do from bed. My grandfather got into lace-making and hand-sewing in his later years, originally so his hands wouldn’t stiffen from arthritis and then because he enjoyed them. For my grandmothers, it was knitting and crochet and cross-stitch. The main hurdle for a lot of men is that those activities are so associated with women, but anecdotally I’ve heard lots of stories of men who pick up handicraft hobbies and end up loving them.

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