Future Call FC-1007SP Amplified Picture Speakerphone

Mom with dementia, can not use a regular phone. She is able to use this phone without any problems and is very happy that she can contact people when she wants too. Very happy with this product.

Once I got the numbers programed, my dear elderly aunt could finally use the phone again. The simple 2 touch dialing made it possible for her to call family and friends again. The digital phone was just too much for her and she found this phone to be familiar and easy to use. It was a joy to have her calling me again and very comforting to know that just touching the 911 button would get her help in an emergency.

Was able to program a few numbers for my mother. Easy for her to use. Good sound quality.

Easy for father-in-law to use!

My dad is 90, living in assisted living, and couldn't work his iphone anymore.First, logistics. You connect the cell phone to this phone. This does NOT use the old connect to the wall tech. Coverage is completely through the cell phone. This phone can be used as a regular phone - dial numbers like push button phone, with one-button calls to 911 also. I got the model with a speaker phone. We found the handset to have much better quality sound than the speaker. More importantly, you can set it to NOT use the numbers as numbers, but to use them as one-button calls to pre-programmed numbers. The numbers have plastic covers over number papers, and you can replace the number slips with pictures. My dad can't see 1 photos anymore, so we used colored initials - nice and bold. Mine is red C that he can see easily. Also, if you take off the plastic covers altogether, there are raised rough numbers. Dad picked out where he wanted one of his friends, and preferred no cover, but he can feel the number 7 on that button.We disabled the 911 button since dad sometimes fidgets and just pushes buttons randomly. Also, the switch for regular vs one-button calling is on the back and not that easy to do randomly, so dad can't switch back and forth by himself, which is good! We don't want him to be able to dial randomly and wake someone up in the middle of the night.We've been very pleased with this. It's given dad several months of being able to use a phone.

Perfect for an institutionalized elderly relative to use who has a cognitive impairment. Once cell phone and even conventional wired desk phone use becomes limited or sometimes impossible, direct two way communication to a responsible family member remains rewarding for both parties. This phone serves that purpose.In our case all buttons, except one, on this phone have been programmed to call the number of one cell phone we have. A message can be left to us but not vice versa. Although we cannot leave a message to this phone, neither can anyone else including telemarketers. Such nuisance calls/messages can be upsetting to the elderly recipient. The one button not dedicated to call us does call the institution's desk.The institution has all our cell phone numbers to call us in case of emergency. Our cell phone, this phone is programmed to call, is put away at night so the health surrogate can get some sleep. The health surrogate has another cell phone that the institution has the number so this is kept nearby at night.Before acquiring this phone there were times the relative could not call us due to an inability to remember how to use the cell phone and after that the conventional desk phone. However those devices did not prohibit calling 911 or randomly pushing numerals and sometimes getting a connect to some stranger on the other than end. Emergency Services 911 and, in one case an individual known to us who, received a closely related numerical dialed call, informed us of these occurrences. Those circumstances have been eliminated.