Apple Watch For Seniors For Dummies, 2023-2024 Edition

Chapter 10

Tracking Your Health

IN THIS CHAPTER

Set up your medical ID

Learn how to use the Health app on your iPhone

Discover health-related Watch apps

Perform medical diagnostics from your wrist

As we get older, the need to keep track of just how we’re doing physically becomes increasingly more apparent. Maybe it’s not quite as easy as it once was to navigate that flight of stairs in your home, or perhaps chasing your dog around the park is a bit more taxing than you remember it being in months past. But getting older doesn’t mean you're sentenced to spend your remaining days in a recliner watching reruns on TV-land (not that there’s anything wrong with that from time to time). It just means that we need to be more vigilant not only with exercise and proper diet but also with the signals the body gives us that something isn’t quite right.

To my mind, one of the most natural functions of the Apple Watch is to assist with health monitoring and activities. So much of our health can be tracked by this little miracle because the wrist on which it resides is a hub for a wealth of information ...