Tek Pal - Large Button TV Remote Control
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Customer Review: Great for Seniors
Summary: 5 Stars
My uncle has macular degeneration. It's hard for him to even see tv much less negotiate the little buttons on the remote. The size of the buttons and the simplicity of the key pad allow him to control his tv viewing. Since he receives only the network channels (no cable), this is a much better option that the huge alternative big button remote with a numbered key pad. However, he has commented that it's a little inconvenient because he can't see the channel number as it flashes on the screen, so he doesn't know if he's on the right channel until the commercial is over.
If you've never tried to program an alternative remote control, you should know this is easy. I was a little apprehensive but I gave it to my very non-techie husband to do and it worked right away.
Customer Review: Perfect TV Remote
Summary: 5 Stars
This remote control was perfect for my 94-year-old mother. She had a minor stroke which affected her already poor memory. I often found her sitting in silence in her apartment because she forgot how to operate her CD player and her standard 57,000 button TV remote control. I searched the local stores for a VERY SIMPLE remote control but could not find it so I was very excited to see that Amazon had this 6-button remote. It's been perfect! It was easy to set it up to use with Mom's TV and she's had no trouble reading and using the large, lighted buttons. Get this remote for your elderly parent or relative! It's exactly what Mom needed. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't mind having it for myself! Now, I just have to find a simple CD player!Customer Review: Superb product for elderly parent
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this for my elderly father who has a degree of dementia. While it does not permit selecting a channel by number, he happily clicks through the channels with the easy up/down buttons. That's what he usually did anyway with more advanced TV remotes.
With more complicated remotes, he had developed a tendency to click various buttons at random, frequently disrupting the TV settings and getting frustrated. That will never happen again with this simple-to-use controller.
The only issue that I had was that the set-up was not quite as easy as the instructions implied. It took me about three tries to get it tuned to the TV. However, that's a one-time problem and just took a little patience and repetition.
Customer Review: fantastic idea
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a fantastic product. In this day & age of "universal" remotes, I looked all over for an easy remote for my 90 year old mother to use. This one is just that. If you can believe this, she had a little trouble figuring it out, but being 90, I guess that is normal. The remote reminds me a little of remotes in hospital rooms, with the exception that it doesn't shut off at a certain point. If only she didn't have "15,000" channels to go through, she wouldn't have problems. That isn't the remote's fault though. The nursing home where she lives called to ask where I got this remote. They talked about getting 10 or 15 to have on hand for residents that had trouble with their own TV remotes.Customer Review: Great product
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this for my grandmother. She received a new TV for Christmas in preparation for the change to digital over the air television. Her old TV still had the twit knob style channel selector, and her Alzheimer's would have made learning the new remote nearly impossible. I wanted her to have a simple remote that would be very easy to use and not allow her to access the TV's menu system.
This remote is great. Programming it was a breeze. It does exactly what it needs to do. It is large and easy to handle. The text and buttons are also large, making them very easy to read and press.
Overall, this remote is exactly what we needed, and it has worked beautifully.