You ring in the morning and again after work. Sometimes she answers. When she does not, you spend the evening telling yourself it is nothing. Bondnow means you can see she has had a good day without having to ask, and without her needing to answer anything.
She might be in the garden. She might not have heard it. You know that, and you still feel your stomach drop, every single time.
You set it up on a visit, showed her twice, and it has been in the sideboard since March. It is not that she cannot manage. It is that it asks too much.
Your brother rings at Christmas. You do the GP, the shopping list, the worrying. There is no version of this where you do less, unless something changes.
Bondnow runs on a tablet in her front room, one she already has, with the screen always on. When you call, your name is announced out loud on her tablet, and ten seconds later you are there. She does not press anything, because there is nothing to press.
You are not ringing to check she is alive. You are ringing because you want to see her. That is a different phone call, and you will feel the difference in the first week.
Nobody wants to be the thing their daughter worries about. When contact costs her nothing and requires nothing, she gets to be your mother again rather than your responsibility.
She does not have to use it. There is nothing to open, unlock or press. Your face appears on her screen, and that is the whole interaction. Everything that failed before failed at the point where she had to do something.
You do, in about a minute. Download Bondnow on your own phone and create your account. Her sign-in is made at the same time, so she never needs an email address. Install it on her tablet, sign in, and nobody touches a setting again.
Both. Calls from the family connect automatically, which is the part that solves the missed call problem. And if you switch on two-way calling, her screen shows up to four faces, and one touch rings that person’s phone.
There is also a red Alarm button that rings the one person you choose. It rings one person, not the whole family, and it is not a 999 service.
No, and we want to be clear about that. Bondnow is not a monitored alarm service and not a medical device. It does not call 999 and it does not detect falls. If she has a pendant alarm or telecare, please keep it.
Then you will know inside a month, and it will not have cost you anything. The first month is free and we never take a card, so if it is not right you simply stop. There is nothing to send back.
Free for the first month, then £9.90 a month or £99 a year. No card, nothing to buy, cancel any time.