I am going to use this with my 90 year old mom. Is there a button for her to turn on to talk to me?
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We had the baby unit in my 86 year old mom's house which was right across the street from our house.We had two monitors and it worked beautifully. She would just need to talk to me and I could go to the monitor and push the button to answer her.
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no just one end has that function the parent unit that has the green display
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Place the baby unit in mom's room. Make sure the baby unit and parent unit are linked then adjust the volume and you can hear any time mom speaks. If you want mom to have the parent unit then show mom that on the left side of the parent unit there is a button she must push when she wants to communicate with you to the baby unit. If mom is alert enough and able to hold unit and push side button at the same time it will work great. However, I would be inclined to give mom the baby unit and you control the parent unit. We love ours, in fact we've purchased two since one quit working after 3 years. Good luck Place the baby unit in mom's room. Make sure the baby unit and parent unit are linked then adjust the volume and you can hear any time mom speaks. If you want mom to have the parent unit then show mom that on the left side of the parent unit there is a button she must push when she wants to communicate with you to the baby unit. If mom is alert enough and able to hold unit and push side button at the same time it will work great. However, I would be inclined to give mom the baby unit and you control the parent unit. We love ours, in fact we've purchased two since one quit working after 3... » Read More Place the baby unit in mom's room. Make sure the baby unit and parent unit are linked then adjust the volume and you can hear any time mom speaks. If you want mom to have the parent unit then show mom that on the left side of the parent unit there is a button she must push when she wants to communicate with you to the baby unit. If mom is alert enough and able to hold unit and push side button at the same time it will work great. However, I would be inclined to give mom the baby unit and you control the parent unit. We love ours, in fact we've purchased two since one quit working after 3 years. Good luck « Show Less
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Place the baby unit in mom's room. Make sure the baby unit and parent unit are linked then adjust the volume and you can hear any time mom speaks. If you want mom to have the parent unit then show mom that on the left side of the parent unit there is a button she must push when she wants to communicate with you to the baby unit. If mom is alert enough and able to hold unit and push side button at the same time it will work great. However, I would be inclined to give mom the baby unit and you control the parent unit. We love ours, in fact we've purchased two since one quit working after 3 years. Good luck
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No and no. It can not be set to answer when picked up and I wouldn't recommend it for an elderly person. The buttons aren't large, it's easy to forget to push the end call and then it won't ring the next time, and the set-up is a little challenging. I bought a set for the aesthetics. They work fine but I still haven't been able to get them to stop blinking without resetting all of my other settings to default.
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Absolutely! The only reason you might want someone to push the button downstairs would be to respond and let you know they heard you. Ours are set up near an open stairs. Dad is downstairs watching TV and we're upstairs calling him for supper, etc. I can hear him respond without him pushing the button to respond via the intercom. We've learned to push the call button several times before speaking so Dad's awake or "ready to listen" to what we're telling him.
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With my mom's phone, I have auto dial set up as she can't see and she just has to hit one number and it dials me. No need to hit send button.
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Not sure if she can keep her old phone #. You can call to find out. The phone is very easy to use. My mom who is 83 has no problems using this phone. It was very easy to set up service. Their costumer service people were excellent.
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The phone can be answered by either the touch screen on the front or open up and hit OK button to answer. If your Dad is anything like my mom I probably would not recommend this phone as the touch screen locks itself to prevent butt dialing and so you have to unlock before you can answer it. If you open up the phone to answer you can set it to automatically be on speaker which is great for anyone with hearing aids. I love the keyboard for texting which is the main reason I've held out so long in upgrading to the new tech savvy phones.
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The two people are: The person answering the line and the caller. This system does not have: a flash button an option of more that one lineA hold buttonI used it for over a year. I work from home.T10I upgraded this year to the T10
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Yes, this is exactly how we use this. You push the talk button and can speak into the room where the other unit is placed. One challenge- if your kids have headphones on, they may not hear you. There is also a cAll button that is a ringer to help get there attention before you speak. Great device!
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Based on our experience with it, I would say it depends on the extent of the person's hearing loss. Our mom is extremely hard of hearing so we need to hold the mic right near our mouth when we speak to her. For others, I think you'd be able to put the mic on a table and it would pic up a conversation with multiple people. I have to say, theis was a great option for a 90 year old lady who regulalrly loses small hearing aids.
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Yes, you push a button to speak. However, you could buy a transformer and leave it on all the time for monitoring. If you had only batteries it would deplete them too quickly.
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Ours has 6 rings. I timed that and it is 22.5 seconds from the first ring till the answering machine picks up. Maybe you can time your Mom. I know it takes longer just to acknowledge the phone is ringing as you age. Good luck.
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I'm also looking at this as a wearable reminder for my senior Mother. She is someone that gets frustrated with the fancy cable remote for TV. When she takes her shots and medicine, does she have to reprogram the whole thing to remind her in 4 hours? Every 4 hours she needs a shot and/or medicine. Be nice if she had a 2 step sequence to reset it. This button , then press 4 ...ex.
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I would like to hear a beep. When I returned from being out all day I have to specificly look for the light. Seems easy enough but since I am 83 I would prefer to have a better signal of a call received.
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I got it as a gift, so I am not sure of my answer. What turned out to be more useful was a voice-activated dialer. It learned her voice and responded accordingly.
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Irmina,Sorry, I can't help. I bought this as a gift for someone and, have had no reports on it. The recipient lives in another town and is a senior citizen. I set it up in his voice recorder and have not talked with him in over a month.
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Yes our four-year-old and nine-year-old use it to talk with us they live a half a block away. Need to teach them how to use it when to push the button and when to let go very easy.
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I don't know what question you are getting negative answers to so it's hard to say. But my experience with this product was very good. My mother is 82 years old and has no trouble figuring out how to use the device and they have always answered promptly when needed.