Elderly Persons Cordless Telephone - Recommendation Please

dinger

Bargain basement, dual pack preferred but must have reasonably large keys on keypad, a decent volume and be extremely user friendly. I would be prepared to pay a little extra if a reliable one is available.

Parents are in their eighties and come with all the usual afflictions and idiosyncranisies associated with their age group. Bless them.

Thanks in advance.

jenniferpa

My mother has the Freestyle 60 and it's been v. reliable, although it's about time for it to have its battery replaced. Nice big keys and good volume IF you talk into the right end (since her stroke my mother has had even more idiosyncrasies than before). However, I'm thinking of replacing it with a corded phone, as she has almost no short-term memory now, and she'll put it down, and then forget where it is!

Jennifer

dinger

Thanks Jennifer, it'd funny that, i've just been looking at this model online...telepathy?

It looked ideal because of the key sizes and it's simplicity but was n't sure as to the size as the spec. did n't give dimensions. You know how marketing images can work against you. Now I know. I'll wait until I get one or two more recommendations before I take the plunge.

Thanks again

Fortyfoot

Freestyle 60 is fine, the 65 is shown also at BT. Look at THIS LINK
Replacement battery available on ebay - £2.99 delivered.
Fortyfoot

Heinz

The Freestyle 60/65 are analogue phones and so my first reaction is, "Avoid" for the simple hiss, hiss, crackle, crackle reason.

I have 3 very elderly relatives (85, 89 and 90) and, perhaps because they all still have a full set of marbles, they can all cope with the basics of BT Studio 100 twin handsets (the 90-year old copes with Caller Display and using 1899 and 18185 too although, for her most regularly called numbers, I've programmed the appropriate prefixes into the phones' memories so she just finds them in the built-in names/numbers phonebooks). £22 or less delivered.

If you're wanting large buttons, how about the OneTel big button version? £26 or less delivered.

ginger_nuts

my parents 78 & 81 have the orchid ranger dect phone .The triple phone cost £37 ,but santa bought theres .There's is set up for 1899 ,18185 and Talk Talk . They found it easy enough to use .see the thread for orchid ,and dont forget you get 20% discount

jem16

BT Freestyle 6100.

It has larger buttons, a speech amplification button and the display can be zoomed.

Heinz

Yes, the BT Freestyle 6100 certainly looks interesting.

silvercar

Whichever phone you buy try to get into the habit of putting the phone "to bed" when you go to bed. That way there is always a phone in the bedroom at night and the phone is always charged up. Both important for emergencies.

Paul_Varjak

Geemarc Clearsound?

dinger

I eventually purchased a BT Freestyle 6100 twin pack off ebay. The handsets looks very suitable but it came without batteries.

The user manual specifies that each handset needs 2 NiHM AAA size batteries. I have googled for these but have noticed that there are a number of different specifications for capacities and voltages e.g. 600, 750, 850, 1000mAH, 1.2v and 2.4v and more. Some are described as "tagged" and there is also a great variation in price.

Would someone clarify in laymans terms what this all means, let me know which ones I need and where's the best place purchase them.

Thanks in advance :-)