Senior Cell Phones

While I hate to say it, I know that my father is officially a Senior Citizen. He’s pushing 60 and while he may feel old, he truly is young at heart. With age comes it’s downside though, he’s slowly beginning to lose his eye sight. He’s had to wear reading glasses for the last 10 years or so but now he’s going to have to start using them for every day driving, so that has him a little bit annoyed.

He didn’t grow up with fancy technology the way today’s generation is, so him getting a cell phone was a pretty big deal to him. He had trouble seeing the buttons on the phone because even I’ll admit that in some cases they’re a little bit too small. He has very thick hands, but that’s a trait on that side of the family, all the men do. Today I found out that they actually have an option for a Senior Cell Phone service. He just renewed his contract with Verizon so I highly doubt that he’d be interested in it, but they seem to have some pretty decent options available. Not only do you get bigger buttons, you also have brighter screens and easier to hear ring tones for those losing their hearing as well.

I went looking through their services and they have pretty easy to to use cell phones that can be used as your standard cellphone or an emergency cellular to keep around the house. They’re pay as you go plans, but I’m sure somewhere down the road there will be enough of a backing for a standard monthly service. I look at it this way though, there’s more of a benefit to having a prepaid service to a monthly service if you’re only using the phone for emergencies. I hardly ever use my phone, hence the reason for having a prepaid. I see no point in keeping a phone for more than $10 a month if there’s no point in it, again this is just me. My father hardly ever uses the phone at all and now he’s spending about $40 a month with Verizon. I think switching over to jitterbug.com will actually help him out, especially when it comes to saving money. I’ll have to let him know about it when his plan is up for renewal in 2009.