BY SARAH KESSLER
IBM and Apple today announced a plan to provide an iPad support service to seniors in Japan. The iPads will come loaded with a suite of "quality of life apps," including those that allow seniors to coordinate medical reminders, shopping, doctor appointments, household maintenance, household cleaning, and transportation.
Japan Post, which provides postal service, banking services, and insurance services in that country, will distribute the iPads through a "watch over" service that it launched in 2013 in which, for a monthly fee, an employee will check on an elderly customer and report back to their relatives about their well-being.
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