Phone with easy auto dial???

knightstyle

My MIL is due home from hospital soon, she is partially sighted and following a stroke her memory is not good. I would like to get her a phone with simple auto dial, to use the one she has you have to scroll through names displayed in a small window which she cannot see.
So is there a phone where she can press the book symbol and then 1 or 2 or 3 etc to phone people?
I remember many years ago we used auto diallers which used a card you put into a small holder and the number on the card was dialled, that would be ideal but I don't think they exist any more.

Mr_Toad

An even better idea would be one with speed dial buttons down the side of the phone as well as a phone book so that her most dialed numbers are a single button press.

Something like this, which was a random choice from a Google search.

http://www.completecareshop.co.uk/household-aids/phones/amplified-phone-view-large?gclid=CjwKEAjw9PioBRDdpqy0-ofG3DgSJAACe5NE3RE4q-x8H4S0HGGKuKEs2q_DHB6BmtOCfdA2ansVyxoCeVvw_wcB

GRM

The RNIB sell a number of phones, this is one example:



http://shop.rnib.org.uk/corded-home-phones/doro-phoneeasy-319ph/invt/dh255n

knightstyle

Thanks both, my sister in law did get her something like this but my MIL threw it back at her saying she was just partially sighted, not stupid!
AAARRRGGGHHH So if something like these is out there in a cordless version that might get her vote.

20aday

knightstyle wrote: »

Thanks both, my sister in law did get her something like this but my MIL threw it back at her saying she was just partially sighted, not stupid!
AAARRRGGGHHH So if something like these is out there in a cordless version that might get her vote.

There's these cordless phones from Doro:

http://www.doro.co.uk/Products/Telephones-for-fixed-line/

My Boss has a mobile phone from this brand and they are easy to use.

knightstyle

Thanks for link but finding out how you access the phone book is not easy!
Can you just press the book button and then a number, 1 or 2 or 3 etc. to dial someone??

macman

This has 3 speed dials, M1, M2, and M3. Much simpler if you only need 3 numbers that are one-touch. 10 more are available as two-touch numbers.
http://www.completecareshop.co.uk/sensory-aids/big-button-and-amplified-telephones/big-button-telephone-view-large?gclid=Cj0KEQjwl_6oBRDHxNGz6ueJufMBEiQAvm_k_pUTdo3CENswczP-9qlcXFr-qGbd1drXClsuPu1a01gaAhlS8P8HAQ

knightstyle

Thanks again for all the ideas but as I have already said, cordless with one button dial would be best, This with cordless handset for example http://www.completecareshop.co.uk/household-aids/phones/amplified-phone-view-large?gclid=CjwKEAjw9PioBRDdpqy0-ofG3DgSJAACe5NE3RE4q-x8H4S0HGGKuKEs2q_DHB6BmtOCfdA2ansVyxoCeVvw_wcB

Does it exist????

Sorry but the DORO phones have the same system as her existing one and are not suitable for partially sighted, you have to scroll through a list of names in a small window to choose someone from the phone book!

agrinnall

Is there anything suitable on here?

http://www.livingmadeeasy.org.uk/communication/telephones-and-equipment-for-blind-or-partially-sighted-users-1338/

20aday

knightstyle wrote: »

Thanks again for all the ideas but as I have already said, cordless with one button dial would be best, This with cordless handset for example http://www.completecareshop.co.uk/household-aids/phones/amplified-phone-view-large?gclid=CjwKEAjw9PioBRDdpqy0-ofG3DgSJAACe5NE3RE4q-x8H4S0HGGKuKEs2q_DHB6BmtOCfdA2ansVyxoCeVvw_wcB

Does it exist????

Sorry but the DORO phones have the same system as her existing one and are not suitable for partially sighted, you have to scroll through a list of names in a small window to choose someone from the phone book!

Looking at the Doro PhoneEasy 100 manual it's possible to assign speed dialling to keys 2 through 9.

But given that's too much like her existing one there must be a cordless phone out there similar to the one you've linked to!

Edit: might be too similar to the one your MiL threw out but there's this from Geemarc:

http://www.geemarc.com/images/stories/virtuemart/product/pic_photodect_wh_std.jpg

http://www.geemarc.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=productdetails&virtuemart_product_id=19&virtuemart_category_id=13&Itemid=20&lang=en

knightstyle

Thanks, 20aday, I missed that. I think it is exactly what is required, will now propose the one with the answerphone. Hope she approves!