Hi everyone - I'm new to the forum. My brothers want to take his phone away because he has called 911 to report my mother missing (she died 5 years ago), and to report his car stolen (he no longer drives). That would make him so isolated and I'm trying to avoid it. Just looking for options.
No apps, no charging, no looking the phone when it is missing. Landlines stay put, they don't disappear, and they are always ready to use.
When my Dad was in Independent Living and later in Memory Care, the facility offered landlines for their residents. Everyone had to learn to dial 9 to get an outside line. Eventually those in Memory Care would forget how to dial 9.
If your Dad needs to purchase his own landline phone, you can search on the internet "landline phones for senior citizens". Get the most simple of phones.
Full disclosure, I am not associated in any way with RAZ Mobility. It just is working for our LO and might be the answer for yours.
how about an iphone?
you put the apps for facetime/whatsapp clearly on the 1st screen. this way your father can call you. (it took me many months to teach my LO how to use whatsapp video - now no problem).
then, the app with the phone icon (the green app) -- move it to another screen somewhere in the back. your father has dementia -- i guess he doesn't know how find apps that are on another screen. (do you see what i mean? you can have many apps on the screen and move the location of some apps to the next screen).
hug!! (unless your father knows how to go to settings, etc., find the phone icon).
He can survive without a cell phone, sometimes we have to do what we have to do.
Whatever your decision in all this, I wish you good luck. Welcome for Forum!
However, if there’s a landline, it should come up to the 911 dispatcher as the name of the business. SF Generals psych ward was that way, so whenever we saw that we would insist on talking to the nurse.