Aged Parents Are Like Little Kids

[poliphilo]

Ailz has bought her parents a new phone. Now they've got two. One each.  So if Dad is alone in the garden and falls and can't get up or Mom goes for a walk and ends up on a street she doesn't recognise- both things that have happened recently- there'll be no excuse for them not summoning help.

Will they do as they've been told and take a phone with them everywhere?

What do you think?

We've given my mother similar instructions. When we remind her about them she goes, "pish tush" and changes the subject. 

Comments

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

No...if they´re true to their elderly genes they will find any excuse not to use the phone. My own mother in law is 92 and many years ago we tried to get her to carry a phone but she always claimed she just couldn´t learn how to even turn it on and just flat out refused. Her reaction was very much like your mother´s.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'll be the same. I already make noises about not being able to understand phones- and do I make the least effort to learn? Of course not.

I hate phones. They're intrusive. Having one in the house is bad enough, but being expected to carry one around.....