My 90-year-old aunt was just admitted to a nursing home, and they aren't set up to have landlines in individual rooms. For patients to have phones in their rooms, relatives need to provide cell phones. My aunt has some dementia. She still enjoys talking on the phone (and most of us live hundreds of miles away, so it's important), but she really is incapable of learning anything new. When I talk to her, she often won't remember something I said just five minutes before. More below. Every time I talk to her on the nursing home's phone, she gets confused and has to ask them how to use it and what to do when the conversation's over, so she needs a phone that looks and acts like a traditional phone. I don't think she'd be capable of using something like the Jitterbug, which I know is marketed to elderly people. I've heard that some elderly people can't process the Jitterbug's ring as a phone ringing - so I doubt she'd be able to. I have searched and found some phones that look good, but have been discontinued. I found this one on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Wireless-GSM-Desktop-Phone-Gadgets%C2%AE/dp/B00MWJS6HQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1448478717&sr=8-2&keywords=desk+phone+sim+card), but it doesn't have very good reviews. So I thought I'd ask here if anyone knows of any other options or has experience with the phone I found. Thank you!
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