Elder-accessible day-to-day technology [View all]
My 93 year old neighbor calls us 10+ times a day to come over and change her channel or because she can't turn her tv on or off. I confess that it's frustrating, but that leads me to my point.
Her tv remote is standard-issue Comcast, with about 40 buttons, while she only needs 0 through 9, volume, channel select, and power. And the buttons are tiny & labeled in ultra-small font.
It's not a question of loneliness driving her to enlist our aid simply for contact; multiple people visit her daily, and she goes out with friends about five days a week, a far more active social schedule than I've ever had.
It's also not a question of intelligence, but she is very intimidated by technology. It took us years to convince her to get a Life Alert pendant because she was afraid that she wouldn't know how to use that single-button device.
I haven't yet done much Googling because, frankly, she has family in town and this feels like something that they should address, but has anyone bought elder-friendly universal remotes that can be operated without eagle eyes and a master's in engineering?
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