My mum has dementia she has recently moved into a new care home that don't seem to be set up for being able to call my mother in between visits.
She had a doro but used it to call me twenty plus times a day and I had to remove it from her because I was getting no sleep.
The new home doesn't seem to have a system set up to be able to call residents except by mobile phone owned by the resident. So I need a phone that cannot be used to make outgoing calls and is simple to use. A smart phone is no use for her she's beyond learning how to use it.
My aunt and I both need ti call her, my aunt only has a landline and is 83 herself and will not consider a smartphone or iPad for face time (and I'd have ti drive hundreds of miles to set it up for her which I just cannot do).
Is there an incoming only phone that would work for our needs? Or ami expecting something uninventable!
AIBU?
To expect to be able to buy a mobile incoming call only phone for mother with dementia?
Mxflamingnoravera · 02/09/2022 14:07
MadeForThis · 02/09/2022 18:30
You would need to delete her call list on a regular basis if there was credit on the phone.
Even if you delete all the contacts the recieved calls would show up.
FictionalCharacter · 02/09/2022 18:21
@Autostress OP said she didn’t want that though as her mother was calling her 20+ times a day and disturbing her sleep.
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Mxflamingnoravera · 02/09/2022 14:27
That's sound like an idea, I thought phones with no credit could take in coming calls but if it's the case that they do then that is a great start. I can get big standards pay as you go and leave it at the nurses station and they can take it to her when we call.
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