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Originally posted by Undertoad
Nextel. (Done.)
Seriously, if she could manage the button on the "push to talk" mobile phone, it would completely solve the problem, wouldn't it?
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I did think about that, but really, it may be too tricky for her to learn. Ideally I'd like to find a fire-and-forget device which will page my dad, and he'll call her back.
An example of the learning problems she's having... her purse disappeared a couple months ago, with her money, keys, ID, etc. In case it was stolen, my dad changed her locks so the theif couldn't get her address off the driver's license then go use the keys to let himself in. Well, she used to have the push-in-the-knob-and-turn lock on her doors, but they don't make those anymore, so they put in the ones with the thumb-twist. She can't figure those out, as simple as they are, because they're too different from what she's used to. Yeah, pretty bad.
One idea I have is to get a speed-dialing phone, program my dad's number to one of the buttons, open up the phone and disconnect all of the other buttons, then link all the buttons together somehow into one large button (or make all the buttons engage that same speed-dial button). But I'd like to find something that would take less work and be less kludgy than that. Nextel may be the answer if I can find nothing better.