She pushes buttons like crazy, gets into menus that record millions of hours of infomercials, turns off my husband's programming, and she gets frustrated and throws the remote. I know there must be an assistive tech device out there that will work. My husband says the remote must be UHF for it to work on her TV. She has separate living quarters downstairs, in our house. We have one dish, one receiver, with two "sides" to it. I've tried pre-programming her viewing schedule, but often it will change channels to a new program before the last minute or so of the previous program has finished. We all hate missing the climax of a drama or finding out who-dun-it, etc. Help!
Keep the remotes away from her if possible.
In thinking about my own remote and wondering if I could teach a 90-something person to use it I don't think I could. Two buttons have to be pressed to get the TV on, first the one button then the other. And then once the TV is on another button has to be pressed in order to flip the channels and look at the guide. Then the process is reversed to shut the whole thing down.
It might be too much for your mom.
Couldn't lose the remote, it had to sit on the table next to the sofa as there were wires running down into the floor which went into the basement and came back up to the back of the TV.
My Dad now lives in senior living facility, and the receptionist told us it is a daily thing with residents pushing the wrong buttons and not be able to use their TV. Dad, who is 94, needs to have maintenance come in at least once every couple of weeks to reset his TV. The remote he has isn't too bad, but it still has too many buttons that he doesn't need.
Dad keeps his TV mainly on one station all day... the local 24 hour news channel.
He has cable for the first time in his life, I was hoping he would take advantage of it such as the History channel, the the channels that have the old game shows from the 1950's, or the channel with all the old western TV shows. Nope, gotta watch the news.