I've been thinking about this a lot lately, having been sharing care-taking responsibilities for my mother who is in the mid-stages of dementia. For the last ye

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, having been sharing care-taking responsibilities for my mother who is in the mid-stages of dementia. For the last year or so, her usage of her phone has become increasingly problematic. She'll pick it up and stare at it blankly for minutes on end, trying to remember what she meant to do with it. She'll poke around the screen, bewildered, sure she had something she needed to do but unable to execute it, entrapped in a constant loop of frustration. And she would compulsively text our family nonsensical gibberish, with dozens of variations as she attempted to get out a well formed version of whatever she meant to say. It's also enabled multiple scammers to extract thousands of dollars from her. It was particularly striking to me, because she was never overly obsessed with her phone or technology generally, prior to the onset of her dementia. Mercifully, she's recently gotten to the point where she can't use it anymore because of dexterity issues.