Intercom for Disabled/Elderly

Kido

My father has recently been very poorly in hospital and as a result he will be confined to living downstairs. I'm after some sort of easy to use intercom for my parents as my elderly mother will be his carer overnight. It's mainly for peace of mind for when my mother's upstairs and my father's downstairs so if he's any problems he can alert us. It doesn't need to be anything fancy. I'm thinking a button Dad can press and it will alert my mother. The buzzer or whatever will need to be quite loud as my mother's partially deaf.

I was wondering if a door bell system would be best or if there are any other options worth considering.

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks for any help.

ukcarper

Some multi handset wireless phones have an intercom facility.

Kido

We have those but Dad never liked them. Said there were too many buttons and the buttons were too small.

p00hsticks

Do they have a landline phone ?
If so, why not get a set of two (or more) cordless phones which have the facility to make internal calls between the handsets. Have one by him and one by your mother - you only need to have one plugged into the phone line. On ours (we have a set of four spread over quite a large house) the internal ring tone is completely different to that from an external call so you can tell who's calling ,and it would allow your mother to speak to your father without necessarily having to go upstairs/downstairs to see what he;s ringing a buzzer for.

wellynever

Not sure how much you would like to spend, but
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001CIPW0M/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B001CIPW0M&linkCode=as2&!!!!!focuondisa-21&linkId=PCEO6FWCPKZTADJR

p00hsticks

Kido wrote: »

We have those but Dad never liked them. Said there were too many buttons and the buttons were too small.

What about something like this then ?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/2-Way-System-Intercom-White/dp/B000NJ0L1G

Bowling_4_Gold

Wireless Doorbell? Cheap as chips. Be careful of range though.

I_have_spoken

Most DECT phones have an intercom facility

tyllwyd

How about a baby monitor?

p00hsticks

Bowling_4_Gold wrote: »

Wireless Doorbell? Cheap as chips. Be careful of range though.

I think to help preserve mothers health and sanity, the OP should be looking at something that allows two way communication.

There'd be little more frustrating that mother being woken in the middle of the night by incessant doorbell ringing and her then having to stumble downstairs only to find that father wants his thick bedsocks from upstairs, or simply wants her to wake him at a particular time in the morning.

And a baby monitor has the opposite problem, with mother potentially being kept awake all night by fathers snoring (or vice versa) !

In my opinion, an intercom of some sort is definitely the way to go.