Can I sync an iPad but omit one app update?

I have asked this question in iTunes without success so will try here for a wider audience.
I have a housebound relative who uses her iPad and Facebook as her link to the outside world.
There is a badge for the new Facebook app but looking at the comments about it the App update has caused many Facebook account to be rendered lmost unusable from n iOS device.. My relative does not want to upgrade the app until the problems are resolved for fear of losing the use of Facebook.
However he does keep her iPad Synced with iTunes regularly. So is there any way that an iTunes sync can be carried out but the Facebook app update omitted so in fact she keeps the current app she is using.
I think not but would welcome any suggestions.

Is the app on her computer's iTunes, and if so is it the new version or not ? If it's the new version then she can delete it from her computer's iTunes library which will stop the new version being synced to her iPad. When she then syncs her iPad it might copy the old version from the iPad to her computer's iTunes - but if she always downloads app updates on her computer then that will get updated on her computer to the new version again, so she will need to delete the app from her computer's iTunes before she syncs again.

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