Big Button TV Remotes: Which Simple Remote Works
A modern television remote has around forty buttons, most of them the same size, several of them for services nobody …
Electronics & Monitoring
Cameras, sensors and phones chosen with privacy and consent front of mind, not as an afterthought.
Answering Machines With Large Buttons: Easy Playback
Voicemail from the phone company works fine until somebody has to remember a mailbox number, a passcode, and which key …
Amplified Phones for Hard of Hearing: What to Look For
An amplified phone is a telephone built with a louder earpiece, a louder ringer, and usually a tone control, sold …
Tablets for Seniors: Video Calls, Reading and Setup
A tablet is often the device that actually gets used, while the smartphone stays in a drawer. The screen is …
Phones for Seniors: Which Type Fits Your Parent Best
Phone shopping for an older parent usually starts from a specific irritation rather than a general upgrade. The ringer is …
Landline Phones for Seniors: Corded Reliability at Home
The landline gets written off as a relic roughly once a year, and it keeps outliving the obituary for one …
GPS Trackers for Elderly Parents: What Works Without a Plan
Location tracking is the category where families most often buy first and think second. The searches behind it are usually …
Day Clocks for Seniors: Reading the Day at a Glance
A day clock does one thing an ordinary clock refuses to do: it says the day out in full. Not …
Cordless Phones for Seniors: Handsets in Every Room
The argument for a cordless set is simple: the phone should be where the person is, not where the socket …
Cell Phones and Smartphones for Seniors: Which to Choose
The mobile phone question for an older parent nearly always comes down to one fork in the road: a simple …
Caregiver Pagers and Call Buttons With No Monthly Fee
Long before anyone considers a monitored alert service, most households need something much smaller: a way for one person to …
Big Button Phones for Seniors: What Makes One Usable
“Big button phone” sounds like a single product, and it is really a set of design decisions that happen to …