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i have to question whether someone with dementia could read and understand reminders on a screen. Thinking back to my mum - she could not have coped with that.
We tried the low tech route of- a big whiteboard and dry-write pens in her kitchen which family could write reminders on when visiting, but it was not very successful - and that was with a classroom sized whiteboard!
Maybe the reason that the ready made dementia solutions don't have them, is not that it can't be done, but that research and customer feedback taught them not to bother.
From what I read, the reason analogue clock displays work is because that is what those people grew up with. They need solutions that stimulate childhood memories/pattern recognition that still works, even when they have lost the ability to learn new patterns - like digital time displays.
So someone my age or older who did not grow up with electronic reminders may never adapt to using them.
having said that, the feedback from Alexa/ Ok google in residential care homes was interesting. Maybe some sufferers can learn to ask Alexa what time is it and understand the response.
Why not write to some of the sellers/suppliers on amazon saying l like your [ dementia clock/ calendar/ whatever] but do you have one that also does reminders?
you may learn something from the replies and it costs nothing to ask.
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