Mobile phone for elderly blind relative

[Actual]

My uncle who is frail, almost blind and has Parkinsons has moved to a care home and I am trying to find a mobile phone that he can cope with.

Touch screen would be impossible and I did buy him a recommended big button mobile phone but it is still only the size of a Mars Bar and has a small screen which he can't see and has confusing menus for contacts, text message and voice mail menus which he can't manage. The phone can be setup with one press quick dials but the buttons are still too small for him and it stupidly uses the red button to turn on and the same red button to turn off.

A mobile phone with just 1 button would be ideal.

Any suggestions for a mobile phone he could cope with?

[bobthemonkey]

Don’t instantly discount an iPhone SE with all of the accessibility features enabled; https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-previ...

Also, once you set it al, up, you can pretty much use it just by voice.

Speak from personal experience with friends of the family.

[cliffords]

Doro 6820

We have a similar challenge with my mother living in a care home . I bought a few she could not use and ended up with a Doro flip phone that sits in a cradle to charge . It's not a smart phone. We have it set up so if it rings she opens it and says hello. When we are done she closes it and that ends the call. We have written down three family numbers for her to call and she has just mastered that with the big buttons and it speaks the numbers as you enter them . She can't master numbers held in the menu so we have not tried.It's the best we found in a difficult situation. It's worked for her for 4 or 5 months now and she has had fairly good success with it .

Good luck .

[stevemcs]

Doro are good quality, simple but work.

[Actual]

Doro 6820

Thanks.

He is currently struggling with a Uleway Big Button Mobile and the Doro 6820 is similar but he could possibly manage the flip.

They call these phones big button but wat is needed is a phone where just the buttons are even bigger than those phones.

I don't think he could manage an iPhone as he wouldn't know top from bottom.

[stevemcs]

Don’t forget to look on the rnib website, they might be able to claim vat relief too

[h0b0]

We have set up Alexa drop in with my dementia suffering dad. I can “drop in” to his room without him having to do anything. He can use Alexa to make calls to any phone or Alexa device. To make normal phone calls it is linked to his mobile account.

[General Price]

The Doro 780X is as simple as you can get,I think.