American Lifetime【New 2023】 Dementia Clock Large Digital Clock for Seniors, Digital Clock Large Display with Custom Alarms, Clock with Day & Date for Elderly, Large Number Digital Clock Black

...having paid £33.88 for this clock back in June I didn't unpack it immediately due to some changes being made in my wife's bedroom.This has turned out to be a completely disastrous waste of money and a source of DISTRESS to my wife.I bought it solely to HELP my wife who has Alzheimers/Mixed Dementia and for a few weeks it seemed OK.Then I began to notice that it forgot the dimmer settings - which upset my wife who likes a dark bedroom and the lowest setting was OK but the brightest setting was not. Then the 'time' display began to fail and showed completely random numbers completely unrelated to the actual time.This has been a disruptive experience for my wife and such products should never be sold to people with dementia - this causes more DISTRESS than it solves.It is now unplugged and - along with other reviewers - I am disgusted that this product is not subjected to better quality control. It is after all sold under the guise of being fully guaranteed and for use in various medical circumstances/needs.Sadly I do not recommend this product and am surprised that Amazon actually represents such expensive and yet shoddy products targeted towards Dementia sufferers.My advice - avoid this particular product.

Clock was purchased specifically for a dementia patient who struggles to relate clock time to day/night time, gets up in the middle of the night and thinks it's daytime (and vice versa), so we bought the clocks (we bought two for the same patient) expressly for the 'Morning / Afternoon etc.' feature that appears on screen with the day/time/date. However, we had no idea that at 12:01AM the message would change to 'Before Dawn'; this makes no sense to anyone, dementia or non-dementia patient. Our dementia patient will definitely be confused, and when she sees it will think its time to get up and make breakfast and change for the day if she wakes up (which she frequently does) around 1am. While this 'Before Dawn' message is not strictly incorrect, 'Before Dawn' in any language would be roughly 4am-6am, NOT from midnight onward. Wish there was some way to change this to 'Overnight'.

My mother suffers from Alzheimer's, and has lost the ability to tell the time. We've had a string of incidents when she has either got up in the middle of the night, or put herself to bed in the middle of the day. She finds this clock very comforting; and apart from a couple of instances when she has been convinced I've altered all the clocks in the house and made the sun rise in the west (!!!) just to confuse her - she seems to be managing very well with it. So well, in fact, that my brother has bought her a second one so that she can have one by her bed, and one by her chair in the living room.Only two slight quibbles:Expensive for what it is - but no worse than any other similar clock, and cheaper than a number of them.And my mother finds the "before dawn" slightly confusing. (But I see that, in the early hours of Saturday, you couldn't describe it as Saturday night. Don't know what the solution to that would be ... ).Overall, very pleased with this clock, despite the price.UPDATEAfter using this for a time, another slight problem has come to light - these clocks do not seem to keep good time (in these digital days, I had almost forgotten what that was like!). One gallops, the other lags. My mother gets very disorientated when one dementia clock is five minutes ahead, other clocks in the house are are correct, and the other dementia clock is five minutes behind. I have to reset the time on both by several minutes each week. Surely that should simply not happen in this day and age - particularly at this price; I recently bought a wristwatch for myself, costing £5, and it keeps perfect time ...

My elderly father is now living on his own for the first time in decades. He dozes during the day and sometimes goes to bed very early in the evening, meaning that he will wake with nobody around and find himself very disoriented, wondering what day it is, never mind what time of the day, even though his watch and clocks in the house are correct.I bought two of these for him: one for the bedroom and one for the living room. While they are not the only elements of help that have been put in place, they have certainly helped, despite his own initial belief that disorientation was not an issue and that they made no difference.A week or so ago, when I visited, it was to find that the one downstairs had been disconnected by a home help 24 hours previously (we haven't put the battery back up in yet). He told me that, in just that short time, he'd missed it – a fair way of judging that it is doing exactly what it was intended for. [Newest Version] Day Clock - Extra Large Impaired Vision Digital Clock with Battery Backup & 5 Alarm Options[Newest Version] Day Clock - Extra Large Impaired Vision Digital Clock with Battery Backup & 5 Alarm Options

My 96-year old Mum loves her clock. She has dementia and glaucoma, as well as being a bit deaf. She loves being able to easily see the day, time of day, month and year, although from her chair she can't always make out the actual figures of the date. She almost prefers to watch the clock rather than the television. Her Occupational Therapist had given her the loan of a day clock a couple of months ago. It was the most expensive one on the market - all singing, all dancing, with the capability of setting many different programmable alerts and alarms, photos and videos etc. We thought long and hard about it before concluding that most of the functions would not be helpful to her as she dozes a lot during the day and would either miss the alerts or they could easily confuse her. We haven't set any alarms as there are carers who go in 4-times daily and they prefer to supervise her taking her meds. We have been thinking of purchasing one for her bedroom as in winter she sometimes wakes up in the dark and can't tell if it's day or night. For Mum this clock is invaluable and gives her that little extra piece of independence she strives so hard to keep hold of. We found it easy to set up, packaged well and arrived on time.