Cordless Phones For The Elderly and others with Special Needs

It is important for the elderly to have a cordless phone designed to suit their special needs. Such phones have extra features like a vibrating ring tone or a bright visual ringer, larger keypads for easy dialling or even a single button for dialling emergency. Safe and secure telecommunication is an important aspect among the elderly with hearing and sight impairments and specially designed cordless phone can go a long way in keeping them connected and safe. Designed to overcome the limitations of making and receiving calls on a regular handset, cordless phones are easy to carry and can have an extra loud ringing volume or a bright visual ringer for the visually or hearing impaired elderly people.

Equipped with larger backlit keypads that encourage easy dialling, an audio boost and manual volume controls on the handset, cordless phones for the elderly can have many features that suit their specific needs and lifestyles. For elderly with both hearing and memory problems, there are cordless phones that allow dialling by photo and amplified phone for the hearing-impaired. In case too much noise is a problem, then the phone can be used in hush areas by programming it for silent operation with a flashing red handset and base alerting users to incoming calls. Some specially designed cordless phones are also compatible with hearing aids and are equipped with features like caller ID display, 30 caller ID memories, built-in pager and a super chat battery with a long talk time. Some popular models of cordless phones for the elderly are Panasonic KX-TG8422, Philips ID5552, BT Stratus 1500 Twin, the KXTG8023 Panasonic telephone, the Panasonic KX-TG8423, BT Verve 500, BT Granite Twin, Siemens Gigaset C475 Triple, Siemens Gigaset A585 and Philips SE6552.