Senior mom who lives with an adult child with autism

[lm89599076]

Hi, 👋 came to this forum hoping to meet other senior parents caring for adult children with autism. Also hoping to get recommendations from the community on home phones and daily check-in apps.

I don’t want to have to drop everything to talk to a human so I prefer a daily check-in app that just lets me push a button. Also I need maximum flexibility because I’m busy caring for my son around the clock and don’t have a lot of time or energy for this. I’m basically doing this to pacify family, and the last thing I need is them getting alerts that freak them out.

Also I need a home phone that is desk phone style (no cellphones) that have programmable buttons for speed dial so  can train my son to call his sister or nephew  if something were to happen to me. But I still need some of the features cellphones offer like recording voicemail messages, converting them to text, and storing them in the cloud or somewhere retrievable. I also need to be able to record entire audio conversations, converting them to text and save them in both audio and text form. I’d need time and date stamps on these records as well.

Please let me know if you have any knowledge or experience. I am finding it difficult to read all the websites and figure it all out. And I’d rather hear from user anyway.

Thanks very much!

[GailL1]

Try Autism Speaks for recommendations on equipment  - they seem to have done research on various tech things that can work and cautions on others.  

Good Luck in your search -