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Old 19th Aug 2014, 7:47 pm   #19
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Default Re: New "old" TV and radio.

This is a thread which is close to my heart - having a parent who's currently in her tenth-decade of life and living with dementia.

It's not 'patronising' to offer such citizens a familiar, non-threatening environment. Indeed, it should be seen as both reassuring and supportive. When times are tough we all instinctively retreat into learned worlds that we understand and in which we can find security and contentment.

Example: a traditional rotary-dial telephone fits well with the sort-of appliance that's been used for half-a-century to call your children. When they call you, it rings with a reassuringly-relevant sound which you instinctively associate with the Bakelite-and-Brass telephone. So you pick up the hndset from the cradle and there's a family-friendly voice at the end.

[|My biggest problem these days is getting said aged parent to realise that these days phone-calls don't cost anything - so we can natter on about various distant-relatives and pre-WWII stuff and it's not costing anything - even if it's a three-way call with a cousin in Canada].
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