Gadgets and gizmos..

[MaryLou13]

Hiya everyone, just in from Hubby's HR meeting. Lots more changes (financially especially) on our horizon.

Anyway, as part of hubby's rehab he is being helped to use plans for all tasks. It's a standard format. Task. Have I done it before? What do I need? How do I do it? (Step by step) . Are there any risks? These are then hopefully going to be used in the future for bigger jobs.

The thing I'm struggling to solve is that they are a4 size. So not practical for going shopping or for a hospital appointment. I was thinking of taking a photo of them to put on his phone but he's not really into technology so wouldn't think to look at phone. any ideas anyone? I'm thinking small laminated cue cards. We use all the usual whiteboards, diaries etc, but is there any other everyday aids people with bi find helpful?

Still lovely here so hopefully can get hubby out for a small walk before bed. Will check in hopefully for some replies later.

Much love

Maria x

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We had a planner that had a main planning sheet at the top (divided into times etc) and then at the bottom were two smaller tear-off notelet sized pieces on the same sheet. Haven't described it very well but the main part acted as the reminder and anything to take out was put onto the little parts at the bottom. Think it came from WH Smith (but may only have been a Christmas/New Year type thing.

[iforget]

The memory aids clinic gave me a small beeper with half hourly settings and attached to that with Velcro was a small voice recorder...so I could record something before I went out and could check where I was supposed to be going and why by listening to the recording. The only problem with this - as with lists and cue cards - is that even when I have it in my hand I rarely remember to look at it.

Having the alert attached was helpful because when it beeped I would see it in my hand and wonder what it was... initially there was about a 5% chance I would play the recorded message but over time that increased ... now on a good day it has a 65-70% chance I will use it properly, but that has taken years of practice and still is not idiot proof

[Elkay_1954]

Hi Maria

We needed cue cards at one stage in my son's recovery. At that time, he wasn't quite 'with it' enough to use his phone as he does now so I printed out his cue cards like little photos and put them in a (hand size) photo album. You could set up alarms for certain times on his phone - just to remind him to check the photo album. He doesn't necessarily have to plough through the phone technology - just look at his photo album when the alarm rings.

Now, we've moved on to phones, iPads, Apple Watch etc and all of my son's prompts/ calendar/ appointments come from there.