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Cellular Phone Forum / Country Specific / Australian Group / February 2007simplest phone for Alzheimers sufferer
Hello, My grandmother is being moved and her new room does not have a phone (for now?). I need a mobile phone that works like a regular telstra cheapie phone. -Big buttons are good. -A couple of speed dials are good (but unnecessary). -Wired into the wall would be preferable (so no charging issues). -Preferably no answer/hangup buttons (just lift the handset?).. if not then really obvious green/red would be good. If anyone has any advice I'd greatly appreciate it. I figure we'll have to teach her... and that may not work. > Hello, > My grandmother is being moved and her new room does not have a phone [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > If anyone has any advice I'd greatly appreciate it. > I figure we'll have to teach her... and that may not work. I dont like your chances, how bad is the altzhiemers ? > Hello, > My grandmother is being moved and her new room does not have a phone [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > If anyone has any advice I'd greatly appreciate it. I figure we'll have > to teach her... and that may not work. Kmart are selling these for between $200 & $300 http://www.techoni.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=1207 :-P  SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com Rod Speed wrote: > I dont like your chances, how bad is the altzhiemers ? She's pretty good most of the time. A year ago she forgot that she gave up smoking 15 years ago, and now she's a regular again. Now she forgets she can't smoke inside her room, so the home wants her to move out, into managed care. So she's trialing a place that will remind her not to smoke, take better care of her, but still give her some independence. > Kmart are selling these for between $200 & $300 > http://www.techoni.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=1207 Wow. This has potential... unfortunately they're on a 24 month contract. I'll send this through to my parents though, it's the closest possibility I've seen. Thanks > Rod Speed wrote >> I dont like your chances, how bad is the altzhiemers ? > She's pretty good most of the time. A year ago she forgot that she > gave up smoking 15 years ago, and now she's a regular again. Weird. > Now she forgets she can't smoke inside her room, so the > home wants her to move out, into managed care. So she's > trialing a place that will remind her not to smoke, take better > care of her, but still give her some independence. Dont like your chances of using anything other than a very simple fixed line phone then. Likely you'd have buckleys of getting anything battery powered recharged. A fixed line phone can be quite viable with even an automatic dial of a particular number when the handset is picked up. Tho that might well result in endless interruptions if she ever does want to call anyone else. The problem can get so bad that they cant handle any device where you press a button to turn it on and press the same button again to turn it off. They dont seem to be able to comprehend how those work etc. >> Kmart are selling these for between $200 & $300 >> http://www.techoni.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=1207 [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > I'll send this through to my parents though, it's the closest > possibility I've seen. Dont like your chances of keeping it charged. > > Rod Speed wrote > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > the same button again to turn it off. They dont seem to > be able to comprehend how those work etc. You seem to know very much about it, Speedo. Does dementia run in the family!? > >> Kmart are selling these for between $200 & $300 > >> http://www.techoni.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=1207 [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Dont like your chances of keeping it charged. > You seem to know very much about it, Speedo. Does dementia run in > the family!? Happens to the best of us. :-P SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > > You seem to know very much about it, Speedo. Does dementia run in > > the family!? > > Happens to the best of us. Of course, Alzheimers is an inevitable plague for many people living longer these days, but their relatives are often too mean to put them into institutional care, hoping that they will soon die. Those with Alzheimers are virtually zombies, so, provided that institutional carers are not actually mining them for body parts, the most humane way to deal with Alzheimers relatives is simply to pay for their nursing care to those willing to provide it. > :-P > > -- > Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > the most humane > way to deal with Alzheimers relatives is simply to pay for their > nursing care to those willing to provide it. Glad I'm not your dad. > <virgmob...@netscape.net> wrote : > > the most humane > > way to deal with Alzheimers relatives is simply to pay for their > > nursing care to those willing to provide it. > > Glad I'm not your dad. What would you do differently? My grandmother hasn't gone as far as many, and she needs to be in a nursing home. She stays with my parents' (or her other son's) about 50% of the time and it's really exhausting for them. It's a full time job. A basic example - turn around and she's moving some dishes (that were lined up for the dishwasher) to the sink, and the number of broken dishes is increasing. If you haven't dealt with it, think about taking care of a 2 year old, who's fully grown, doesn't have to listen to you, and who smokes and drinks - and knowing that it's unfortunately getting worse over time, not better. > > > Greg wrote: > > > > Now she forgets she can't smoke inside her room, so the [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > > > > > Likely you'd have buckleys of getting anything battery powered recharged. Agreed. We'd have to permanently attach the power cord into the base of the phone somehow, I think. Anyway, once she's decided to move to this home we can get her a normal landline, and we'll program in her 8 favourite numbers. > Anyway, once she's decided to move to this home we can get her a > normal landline, and we'll program in her 8 favourite numbers. This is probably your only option. One of the main features of Alzheimers (or any dementia of which Alzheimers is just one) is that the capacity to learn NEW things is almost absent. You will need to get her a phone identical to the one she already knows and uses. You'll also need to accept that a time will come when she won't remember what to do with that, either. Hopefully by then she will be in 24 hour care. > Of course, Alzheimers is an inevitable plague for many people living > longer these days, Actually, thats just rubbish. Alzheimers disease is a YOUNG person's dementia. and by young, I mean 40+. Its been coined as a term for all dementias in recent years but it is most definitely NOT a disease of old age. Dementia in later years is much more likely to be linked to multiple infarcts in the brain (death of brain tissue via clots or bleeds) or extensive alcohol use for years and years. > Those with Alzheimers are virtually zombies, Those with true alzheimers probably have no more than 5-10 years of life left after diagnosis. And they aren't "zombies" as you put it, until the late stages of the disease. When they get there, they are still functioning, but they cannot remember anything. They are often very frightened and vulnerable individuals, because nothing is as they expect it should be. Have a little compassion. I would be VERY wary of providing her with any mobile phone other than prepaid - if she makes a call and forgets to hang up or talks for ages she could be up for BIG $$$$$ Once posibility might be the Telstra prepaid fixed line plan - have a look at the info for this on the Telstra site as this would allow her to have a fixed line walkabout phone in her room with the base station located elsewhere in the house. David > Hello, > My grandmother is being moved and her new room does not have a phone [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > If anyone has any advice I'd greatly appreciate it. I figure we'll have > to teach her... and that may not work. |
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