On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:59:07 -0500, "Kathy"
wrote:

| Can someone recommend a cordless phone that rings LOUD? My parents recently
| replaced their phone with one that they don't hear easily. It's only been a
| week and already I've run over there a couple times afraid that they were
| laying somewhere unconscious only to find that they didn't hear the phone. I
| went to Target, Bestbuys and Kmart to take a look but you couldn't hear the
| ringer before buying. Of course they all said, "Just bring it back if it's
| not loud enough." I'd like to just take one more trip to the store.
|
|

Try this online source for a separate ringer that is adjustable (can
be made loud). This is a company that sells electronic devices for the
hard of hearing.

http://www.marilynelectronics.net/pr...es/ringmax.htm

My wife and I have bought amplified phones here for my father in law,
who is 93 and quite hard of hearing. They worked fine for quite a few
years when he lived at home. Unfortunately, he has now reached an age
where he cannot figure out how to turn on the phone amplifiers or put
in his hearing aids, so we again have to shout. But he lives in an
assisted living facility so we don't have to rush over.

Marilyn Electronics also sells an autodialing phone with an emergency
pendant which we bought for my FIL. If someone falls and can't get up
(to coin a phrase), punching the button on the pendant dials the phone
and broadcasts a recorded emergency message to up to five different
phone numbers.