The staff are kind and the room is nice and you still drove home feeling like you had left her somewhere. BondNow puts a device in her own room so you can be part of an ordinary Tuesday, not just the Sunday visit and the monthly update.
You made the right decision. It still feels like this, and most families do not say so out loud.
Ringing the home means asking a busy person to fetch your mother to a shared phone. You do it less often than you want to, because you do not want to be a nuisance.
You know she ate lunch and slept well. You do not know whether she laughed today, and that is the thing you actually wanted to know.
Care homes are strange places for children. Fifteen minutes in a lounge is hard work for everyone, so visits quietly become rarer.
Not the shared floor phone and not the front desk. When you call, your name is announced out loud on her device, and the call connects by itself. No staff member has to be found, and nobody has to be asked for permission.
A resident whose screen shows her grandchildren all afternoon is a resident with a life outside the building. Staff notice that, other residents notice it, and so does she.
When you can drop in for four minutes on a weekday, the Sunday visit stops carrying all the weight. That is the change families describe first.
It is worth telling them, as a courtesy and so they know what the device is. It needs somewhere to sit and a plug. It does not connect to their systems, does not need their wifi password from you, and creates no work for staff.
No. That is the point of it. Families run it themselves, and calls connect without anyone being fetched. If anything it replaces the calls your family currently makes to the office.
It goes with her. The device is hers, not the home's, and it needs nothing more than power and an internet connection wherever it ends up.
Yes, and some do. If you think your mother's home would be interested, send them to our page for care homes. There is a free 8 week pilot and two ways to run it commercially.
No. BondNow is not a monitored alarm service and not a medical device. It does not call 999 and it does not detect falls. Her care home remains responsible for her care and safety.
£250 once, £14.50 a month with the first two months free, and 60 days to change your mind.