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

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

My mother was given a Lifeline necklace (you push a button and it activates an intercom response), and she won't wear it because "it accidentally goes off sometimes."

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I sympathise. I wouldn't take kindly to wearing something like that either.