Good morning. Does anyone have experience of using the DayClock Plus from Unforgettable. This is the one that connects to the internet so you can send messages from your phone. Just wondering if it is worth the investment?!!
My experience -- and everyone's is different -- is that by the time such things are required, the person you're helping is unlikely to benefit. And if they do, it won't be for long.
The temptation to throw technological solutions at dementia is high. I did it repeatedly, chasing hope like Alice chasing the white rabbit. The trouble is, of were don't try these things, we then wonder if they would have helped. Ultimately what folk with dementia need is people, but I did have some success for a while with a laptop I could Skype into without Mum touching anything. I could get her attention that way. No end of white boards or notes ever managed that. She'd only look at them if I told her to.
But who knows, if your PWD is earlier in the slippery slope it might work. Dementia always finds a way to make us feel freshly powerless though. Good luck.
My BiL recently got a clock for his dad.....one that can be programmed to remind him to take his meds, have his dinner etc. On his last phone call my husband asked his dad how he was getting on with it. FiL said that now he is used to it, he knows what it's going to tell him to do ahead of time.......so we're wondering if he's sometimes doubling up on meals etc, once at 'predicted' time and then again when the clock actually tells him! Or, alternatively, missing out completely cos he decides to wait untl the clock remnds him, then thinks 'I've already done this'. We really can't work out what's going on....maybe it's time to look at 'smoke alarm' nannycams