Rooms are Never The Right Temperature

Rooms are Never The Right Temperature

My Mom’s heating and cooling HVAC system doesn’t distribute the air well throughout her home

I was running into the same problem in my house, and I was manually turning on floor and ceiling fans, but this can get tiring. I wanted a solution.

Automatic Flushing & Hand Washing

Your mother might be able to use the automatic toilet flusher and touchless water faucet described in this article Smart Bathroom Features for Older Adults These are easy to add on devices for a toilet and a sink        

Ask Alexa to “find my phone”

  The easiest way to set this up is to just speak to Alexa by saying “Alexa, find my phone” Alexa will verbally guide you through the setup process.   If this doesn’t work for you, there is another method to install the Alexa Skill You could set up the “Find my phone” Skill by … Read more

Smart Home Kit Lists

Smart Home Kit Lists

As we explore various smart home solutions useful for “better aging”, we get requests for some specific “kit lists” that contain a collection of the products needed to implement some of the DIY solutions found on this site. This page is where we keep the lists of products for each of those “kits”. Each kit … Read more

TV Always On in Background: Mind Numbing

TV Always On in Background: Mind Numbing

If you have visited residents' rooms in a nursing home, you will notice that the resident's TV is always on, although the resident is not paying attention. It's mind numbing.

Best Automatic Pill Dispenser for You

Which Medication Dispenser?

Caption: Left: MedaCube; Right: Hero; Top middle: MedMinder; Bottom middle: GMS.   It is too simplistic to talk of the “best automatic pill dispenser“. But it is definitely appropriate to talk about the “best medication dispenser for a specific individual or life situation“.     Different Life Situations Need Different Pill Dispensers This is Part 2 of … Read more

Stove turn off reminder

I first started thinking of (expensive) automatic shut-off means but why not just set a loud countdown timer nearby and set for expected time of needing to turn off stove? Smart phones have this ability too…