RecallCue

This is a great app & worth the monthly fee as long as you are aware some functions don’t work- recurring appointments doesn’t work so you still need to enter the info for each day so it will show up on the actual day the activity will occur. Since my parent has the same activities several days a week, using recurring appointment option would be so awesome- I have messaged developer several times but problem remains. Aside from that, it is amazing.

I have the app loaded on a Samsung Galaxy tablet. It’s awesome to be able to remotely display reminders and greetings for my elderly mother who lives alone. The display is very easily read, even from across the room. It always shows the day, date, and time, and any message or photos you might want to display. I use the “check in” feature daily. This gives me the ability to do a video call with her. I especially like the auto-answer feature which means mom does not have to tap anything to answer my video call. I also use this “check-in” feature to peek in on her, to make sure she is taking her pills on time. Or if she doesn’t answer my call on her regular phone, I can use the “check-in” feature to see into her apartment and make sure she hasn’t fallen or is incapacitated in some way. Those are the features I use the most, the “check-in” and the display of reminders and greetings. Of course you can also remotely display photos and even set up albums to run like a slideshow. And other cool features as well. Just to insure that mom does not accidentally mess-up or close the app, I’ve set up several things. First of all the app has a toggle to prevent accidental sign-out. That’s good. I also set up the Samsung tablet to prevent all notifications and automatic app updates from the Google play store. Even the security updates, which I can do manually when I visit. Then I used the tablet’s ability to “pin” the app so it will always display, even if someone touches the screen. It’s just all all-round stellar app—such a great help to me! Thank you to the developers! (By the way, if anyone needs help ensuring that their elderly loved one takes the correct pills at the correct time, I use the Adamson Timely Med Smart Pill dispenser, which comes with an app that enables you to monitor the dispenser. It’s awesome and foolproof.)

This has been a godsend because I can help my parents with dementia, prevent them from missing appointments, forgetting certain dates etc. and we can send photos and audio stuff which I haven’t tried yet. I have the set up like it’s a picture frame on an old tablet. It works great as long as you’re on an iPad that can run iOS version…uh..Not sure just check the requirements to verify that your iPad is supported. To me this is well worth the subscription cost. The only thing I would like to lobby the developer to add is some sort of calendar sync or an email invite capabilities. This is so I could manage the calendar entries from my or my siblings calendars. This would help remove the pressure from me having to go in the RecallCue app to eyeball whether or not I have every calendar entry up to date. Otherwise I have been looking for something like this for the last two years and couldn’t find anything so I’m super happy if this exists. I had even considered hiring a developer to make almost exactly this because it fills in a big void.