TV remote control

[messier]

Has anyone found a solution to help the person they care for change channels on the TV or found a radio with big easy to press buttons? Mum is in a home so hasn’t got a partner there all the time. She is now struggling to change channel on the remote. The simple remotes I’ve seen seem to just have up and down buttons for changing channel which make changing between BBC1 and BBC4 (on channel 9) hopeless so she has a normal remote but the buttons are small and close together. She has to call for a carer to put the radio on.

[jamescrra]

Hi Messier. My dad had a hard time with the remote specially clicking random buttons and getting into endless menus. We tried painting the important buttons and that helped some. For example painting the little "exit" button red to get out of the menus, green for "ok"..

[Daffodil41]

hi. My mum has one of the remotes with big buttons and has to use the channel arrow buttons until she finds what she wants. It’s not ideal but it allows a level of independence. For a radio, she has an Alexa and uses voice control to switch it on. She’s in her own home so not sure whether this is possible in a care home. Good luck

[StuckSpear]

We use these—bump stickers in different colors. White for her black remote, square for volume up, circle for down, etc.

Bump Dots for Visually Impaired 106PC Combo Pack - Made in USA - Assortment of Colors, Shapes and Sizes - Low Vision Aids Braille Stickers Raised Tactile Dots for Elderly, Blind a.co/d/2ZL1WaF

[BellaRooney]

My Dad had a visit from his Speech and Language therapist a while ago and they referred him for a remote control device that is a bigger than a normal remote control. It has 5 bigger buttons with his favourite channels on so whichever he presses it will go onto something he likes.

[messier in reply to BellaRooney]

that’s what I’m after! Do you know anything about the make or model? Mum’s SALT team are hopeless and I had to get them brought back again when they visited her in the home when I couldn’t be there and said she was managing by taking small sips!

[BellaRooney in reply to messier]

Hope this helps!

Reverse says ABILIA AB

[BellaRooney in reply to messier]

and the front…

The front says GEWA