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Natural disasters require planning when caring for someone with dementia. A confused mind may not recognize the danger. They may panic and be combative during an emergency and refuse to budge.

➡️ Create an Evacuation Plan:
Many local emergency operations centers offer a course called Map Your Neighborhood. It focuses on one street at a time. The course covers the steps to take following a disaster when emergency services are not available for the first few hours, days or even weeks. It teaches how to organize your neighbors and know who has what skills and supplies that may be useful in a disaster.

Choose meeting places in your neighborhood and at least one out of town location. Include updates via your favorite social media or the Red Cross App. Choose an out-of-state contact in case the local lines are down during the emergency. The long-distance lines may be available for calls. Text messages may get through when phone calls don’t. Include in the plan contact information for doctors, schools, workplaces, or any service providers like daycare providers or in-home medical assistants.

Each family member always carries the plan with them. Store it on your phone. Access to the Cloud will be cut off until power and communication lines are restored. Carry a back-up paper copy in a sealed baggy.

➡️ Practice the Plan
Arrange family meetings where you review and practice your plan. Include your loved one and pets. If you rush someone with a confused mind, they will become agitated. Practice the plan at different times of day, so you know what challenges to expect, especially if an emergency occurs at night. Practice techniques that help calm your loved one with dementia if they melt down.

Adapt your plan based on your practice drills’ successes and failures. Make it fun, laugh, celebrate the successes and the failures.

Practice streamlines your ability to evacuate safely. The more you practice, the calmer everyone will be in the event of an emergency, including pets. It’s easier for everyone to rely on a familiar routine. Routine reduces mistakes.

Plan. Practice. Breathe easier.

Tracy Cram Perkins — author of Dementia Home Care, How to Prepare Before, During and After.

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RAZ Mobility

The best phone for someone with dementia is the one they can actually use, and the one you can easily set up and manage.
Johnnie found both in the RAZ Memory Cell Phone, and happily recommends it.

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RAZ Mobility

When a senior has low vision or hand tremors, a standard phone can be almost impossible to use.

That's why the RAZ Memory Cell Phone has a Low Vision & Hand Tremor mode. When it's enabled, the screen shows super-large, high-contrast buttons, with color schemes you can adjust for easier reading. You can customize contact icons and add a status tile that shows time and battery at a glance, all from your own smartphone, with the RAZ Care app.

The Low Vision & Hand Tremor mode is ideal for those living with Parkinson's, recovering from a stroke, or facing age-related eye conditions.

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RAZ Mobility

When a senior has dementia, emergencies aren't always what they seem. Sometimes the danger is real. Sometimes it only feels real.
And when it is real, they may not be able to explain what's happening, or even where they are.

The RAZ Emergency Service is built for both. Instead of dialing 911 directly, emergency calls go to a trained dispatch agent who assesses the situation and notifies caregivers by text:
🟡 For imagined emergencies and accidental calls, the agent can resolve the situation without involving 911.
🔴 In a real emergency, the agent already has your loved one's medical conditions, location and other important information on hand, and can pass them straight to 911, even if your senior can't.

Learn more about the RAZ Emergency Service: tinyurl.com/4rh29a63

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RAZ Mobility

Our CEO, Robert Felgar, sat down with occupational therapist Carol Chiang on the Innovative Aging podcast to talk about something many families struggle with: how to keep a loved one with cognitive impairment connected, without the confusion a regular smartphone brings.

Drawing on his years developing mobile solutions for people with dementia, low vision, and tremors, Robert breaks down why modern smartphones overwhelm many seniors, what to look for when choosing a device, and how caregivers can manage everything remotely, from blocking scams to setting up reminders and emergency calling.

It's a thoughtful conversation for anyone caring for an older adult, or the professionals who support them.

📹 Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/cXN0k0dvFAE
🎧 Or listen on Spotify: tinyurl.com/mrx2sk5y

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RAZ Mobility

Dementia caregivers are the most likely of all caregiving groups to put off self-care. Plagued by persistent exhaustion that sleep does not fix, making us irritable which may cause us to withdraw from society, which creates more stress.

Did you know that as a dementia caregiver you may be holding your breath and causing your cortisol levels to rise?

Cortisol is great if you are outrunning an angry mob with clubs and pitchforks, but not so great when you are banking it every day in your body for retirement. When we are stressed, we hold our breath—only using the top third of our lungs. It increases blood pressure, chances of heart attack or stroke, likelihood of diabetes, and chances of early death.

What if there was a simple, portable solution we could use every day?

Simple Breathing Exercise

Follow these simple steps to reduce your daily stress:
1. Take a step back from whatever you are doing.
2. Take a deep breath in through your nose, fill your lungs until you feel it in your diaphragm (belly).
3. Gently purse your lips together and breathe out of your mouth for 8 seconds.

Repeat two more times.

Quick tips:
➡️ Set the alarm on your cell phone so you don’t forget to take time to breathe.
➡️ If you use this simple breathing technique five times a day for five minute. Over the course of six months your cortisol levels will return to normal.
➡️ If you are taking blood pressure medication, alert your medical practitioner so they may adjust your dosage to prevent you from passing out from low blood pressure.
➡️ If you do this exercise for ten minutes or longer you may experience a tingling, euphoric feeling. That is the increased oxygen in your blood stream alerting you it is time to stop.

The next time caregiving makes you feel like you’re running from the mob with pitchforks, pause and breathe. This small habit will not fold the laundry, answer the same question for the tenth time, or magically make the day easier, but it will help. Caring for yourself is not one more thing on the list—it helps you keep going. Give yourself the grace to enjoy the moment. You need to do something just for you.

Tracy Cram Perkins — author of Dementia Home Care, How to Prepare Before, During and After.

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A lot of families spend months searching before they land on the right phone.
The RAZ Memory Cell Phone was exactly what Cathy's mom needed, and it solved the problems the family had been living with for a long time.

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RAZ Mobility

Caring for a parent from another state, or another country, comes with a particular kind of worry. You can't simply stop by to check their phone, fix a setting, or see if they're okay.

With the RAZ Memory Cell Phone, distance stops being the obstacle. From your own smartphone with the RAZ Care app, wherever you are, you can add contacts, adjust settings, set reminders, check battery level, see their location, and video call to lay eyes on them.

You may not be down the road, but you're never out of reach.

Learn more: tinyurl.com/2t3txfuv

*The RAZ Memory Cell Phone is available in the U.S. and Canada, while it can be remotely managed through the RAZ Care app from anywhere in the world.

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When your senior misses a call, how do they know who it was? On most phones, missed calls end up buried in a list they may never open.

The RAZ Memory Cell Phone keeps it simple. A pink dot appears next to that contact's photo right on the home screen, so the senior can see at a glance who tried to call them. To call back, they just need to tap the contact's picture.

Like all features, this is optional and remotely managed by the caregiver, in the RAZ Care app.

Learn more about the RAZ Memory Cell Phone: tinyurl.com/5bja6v4a

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RAZ Mobility

Many caregivers hold off on switching their seniors' phones, worried the adjustment will be hard on their loved one.

With the RAZ Memory Cell Phone, the transition is easy:
➡️ Your senior can keep their number and provider.
➡️ You, the caregiver, add contacts and adjust settings remotely, with the RAZ Care app, on your own smartphone.
➡️ Your senior only has access to the features you enable, and calling a loved one is as easy as tapping a picture.

See why the RAZ Memory Cell Phone is the best choice for seniors with cognitive decline or who are tech-averse:
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