Any microwaves for people with dimentia

[mish23]

I look after a good friend and neighbour he has Dimentia and no sense of danger i need a microwave that i can set to cook for just 4 minutes so that he cannot put on full time again and again causing electrical fires. Pls can anyone help recomend a microwave so that he can maintain some independance and be safe as it becomming a very serious problem

 

[mrjelly]

Hi mish, and welcome to the forum.

As far as I know, there aren't any microwaves specially designed for people with dementia. Probably the closest thing would be one with a child lock that could be used by a carer and not by the person with dementia. This usually requires a special or unusual combination of button presses to lock and unlock the control panel.

 

[karaokePete]

This may not answer your question, however, it helped my wife when she couldn't manage the microwave anymore. I used a permanent marker to write clear numbers beside the buttons using 1,2,3 etc., for the sequence and put x3 etc., beside the buttons that required multiple hits.

 

[Linbrusco]

I bought Mum a microwave that had some easy touch controls that had 10mns, 1 mn & 1s.
I covered over all the buttons apart from the 1minute, Start & Stop.
Mum only ever heated stuff up and knew enough to press the 1 mn a couple of times.
Prior to that with her old microwave she was putting it on for 30 mns instead of 3!