Review on iSoHo Phones Corded Phone for Seniors & Hearing Impaired - Retro Black Novelty Telephone - Big Button Style - An Enhanced Version of The 1965 Princess Phones by Yvonne Roybal

Princess phones are usually described as cute and retro. Maybe the target group are people who miss the 1960s or want to live there. But there's another, even more important, market for these types of phones: people with dementia. My 84-year-old mother is in mid-stage dementia, similar to Alzheimer's disease. She recently moved into a nursing home and had to provide her own phone. Cell phones have too many (and too small) buttons for people with cognitive disabilities. Ordinary phones also have unnecessary buttons, and many models have built-in answering machines that are cryptic and unusable for people like my mother. Cordless phones, like cellular phones, have the disadvantage that they are easily lost and forgotten. So a wired phone with a minimum of buttons is what you need. Videophones that have a picture of a loved one instead of a number on each button sounded good to me until I read reviews that these phones made it too easy for a caller to call the same person multiple times a day. I wanted my mom to have a regular, plain, old-style phone that needs to dial numbers but has no other options. And my mom loves pink. So I bought this phone. It is ideal: a short cord, a minimum of buttons, nothing is confused anywhere, it rings loudly, pink. One day mom won't be able to push buttons or make calls, but until then she might not even know what a phone is. Unfortunately, this is the reality of dementia. In the meantime, this is the perfect phone for her. I recommend people who need to buy a phone for the elderly with mid-stage dementia seriously consider this little princess phone.