IPad 1st gen iOS 5.1.1 crashes on all apps!

Several years ago I bought my wife an ipad 1st gen, which is still is mint condition, however last year it started to randomly close apps, safari....bloody everything really. I decided recently to get my wife the new ipad air and I took ownership of the 1st gen, I thought it might be crashing due to the amount of apps and memory use from those apps. I reset the 1st gen through itunes and loaded a few apps, problem is, it still closes apps and browsers after between 1 minutes and 5 minutes of opening. This is extremely frustrating as it kicks me out of work links through citrix and something as simple as reading the news on a website. The ipad has become a dust collector as such, since there appears no way of using this enjoyably.
Any ideas out there?
Thank you

I had synced with my computer on itunes before I did the update, but in my itunes I only see my apps music and photos. I see nothing about your calander on itunes. I did not have the cloud untill this update, so it would not be there.

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