 This is a bit of a shot in the dark - don't know if anyone can help me. My elderly mum is having difficulty seeing the hands on her analogue watch in order to tell the time. Getting her a larger watch isn't going to help because, as a result of a medical condition, she is also having difficulty interpreting what the hands mean when she can read them. We think it may be worth trying her out with a digital watch, so we're on the look out for a digital watch which is in itself relatively small, but that has a big digital display, and that is 12 hour since she probably won't be able to cope with 24 hour clocks. Any ideas / suggestions gratefully received.
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As far as I know, most digital watches can switch between 12 hr and 24 hr displays.
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.jpg) MK, I've had a number of Casio digitals over the years and have always found the display on them to be easy to read - they also come with at least one alarm (and sometimes up to 5!) which may or may not be useful as a medication taking reminder if this were necessary? They are light, waterproof and cheap
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 MoS's aunt is nearly blind and has a talking clock! It seems there are talking watches too. Some are digital (bottom of page). If you google 'talking watch' or RNIB you may well find other sources. A different slant on the problem perhaps....?
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As a slight aside that might help, or not, but I'd check out the help the aged charity website. I know they have a mobile phone on there somewhere that is designed for the older person. A lot of people use mobiles for the time and IIRC this one has a large, clear display on it so the clock function might be clearer. You can often get neck loops for the phones too. If that is a daft idea then still check out the website as I'm sure they would have something on there to help. If not contact them as it is what they do, help older people with sight, sound or other access issues to their age / health. I have seen large display digital fashion watches before but they are more for younger markets and the ones I've seen have been for men too. I think Swatch even had some once.
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Sorry two charities for the elderly have merged to become Age UK. Check out their site.
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 Our kids have "junior watches" which have pretty big numbers. Pete will tell you details like brandname, model number, hydrostatic head of material used for the straps, etcetera 
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 AND he's been using my Macbook again!
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lol, Roos! I shall await his post, though thb, I don't think mum will be too worried about hydrostatic heads!!!
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Something like this: watch Because they limit the number of features the display just show the time in big numbers.
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Thanks, whoever's currently using Roos' account  Will look into these suggestions. Matt, there's some potentially useful stuff elsewhere on that website too, thanks.
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 Kate Interesting question, my In law is heading the same way, so out of interrest I googled visually impaired watches. The talking watch came up, but there were quite a few hits http://www.mobilitysmart.cc/home-garden-aids/clocks-watches-c-30_1008.html http://www.abilityanswers.com/talking-big-digit-watch-408-p-1575.html?zenid=2899252c98997573b37801705ee7ec12 Thats Christmas sorted Cheers
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Thanks, Chewie for more useful links I think a watch that reads out the time for you is probably going to be the most useful thing because she can interpret 'time' when she's told, for example, that it's 4 o'clock (thus tea time )
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