If, like me, you regularly talk on the phone to someone living with dementia, you may have found that mobile phones really don’t help. They just don’t look like a traditional phone with a curly cord, and your dementia friend doesn’t know what it is, leans on the screen, turns down the volume by accident, doesn’t know what to press, doesn’t hold it up to their ear… (If you’ve been there, you’ve been there!) The upshot is it generally adds to the confusion they may already be feeling and doesn’t make for an enjoyable phone call experience for anyone.

I wondered if there might be an old style hand set you could link to your phone, and after some searching came across this ‘novelty’ handset that just plugs into the headset or power socket depending on your mobile – it effectively works like earphones. I got a couple of adapters so that the phone jack would work with an iPhone – but it may be the earphone jack that it needs to plug into. We did a bit of testing to check it did the trick. When you know what to look for (often described as 3.5mm retro or vintage handset) there are plenty of them out there, but this is the one we got Classic Retro

So it does improve things. It isn’t perfect, but it makes one thing just a little bit better.

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