With moms vision issues getting worse, she has been having trouble finding the channel she wants to watch. She just can't see the remote. With TV being one of the few things left that she can do, this is a big deal to her. She had been paging quite often, to ask me to find her channel for her. Many times I would go in to check on her and shes staring at the wall, because she got frustrated trying to find the channel, gave up, and turned the TV off. She didn't page me because she didn't want to bother me.
We came up with a very simple solution. Moms favorite channel is 7. We put a piece of Velcro on the channel 7 button. Whenever she losses her place she feels for the Velcro and presses the 7 button. Then if she wants to watch another channel, she feels for the channel up/down button and counts to the channel she wants. So far this has worked really well.
We came up with a very simple solution. Moms favorite channel is 7. We put a piece of Velcro on the channel 7 button. Whenever she losses her place she feels for the Velcro and presses the 7 button. Then if she wants to watch another channel, she feels for the channel up/down button and counts to the channel she wants. So far this has worked really well.
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