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JennyAnyDot Asked August 14, 2023

Nursing home and TV issues.

I saw a great forum thread from April 2019 on this issue: roommates in NH each have their own tv and each resident turns it up louder than the other, and some keep their tv on 24/7 so it's hard for the other to rest, have quiet family visits, etc.
I saw some great ideas in the old thread, but here's our issue:
My mom is very hard of hearing and wants her tv loud. She is respectful of visitors and turns her tv off around 10 pm if not earlier. But she does love watching her news and shows.
She won't wear large, over the ear headsets. She has "body claustrophobia" - all my life she never wore hats, scarves, necklaces, bracelets, or earrings as she hates things on her body! She has already refused the headset solution.
She's mostly bed bound and nearly quadriplegic as a result of severe spinal stenosis. Her hands don't work well especially with small things like ear buds. She would only be able to use in-ear devices for tv sound, if someone at the NH helps her every time. She gets help putting her hearing aids on each morning and taking them out at night.
Any suggestions?

JoAnn29 Aug 14, 2023
I go along with hearing aides with blue tooth. Smart TVs should be able to do anything a tablet/phone can do. Yes, hearing aides with blue tooth are expensive but there is a box alternative that is cheaper that works with the aides.

Emma1817 Aug 14, 2023
I have not seen a reply from AlvaDeer in some time, but as she often used to write, “sometimes there IS no solution.” She was right. Well, in this case, there is ONE solution: your mother either sucks it up and gets over her strange “body claustrophobia” thing, and uses the darn headphones, or she just has to live without the TV.
PeggySue2020 Aug 14, 2023
Or put the tv on closed caption

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ventingisback Aug 14, 2023
My elderly friend used hearing aids, which can connect directly to the iphone and ipad. Someone calls the phone? The sound goes directly into the ear. Bluetooth.

In other words, you can connect your mom’s hearing aids to her ipad? And she can watch her shows through the ipad? Or it might even be possible to connect her hearing aids to the TV through bluetooth.

anonymous1732518 Aug 14, 2023
Even smaller over the ear headphones bother her?

MACinCT Aug 14, 2023
Earbuds too?

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