www.independentliving.com has some nice, easy-to-see analog watches, but now that his whole ability to comprehend an analog watch--in other words--translate a representational graph into a time, is fading, he's relying on the oven's digital readout.
A year or so ago I bought a great big wall clock with a display of the date over the analog clock (which I find very useful myself,) but I can see he's deliberately bypassing any effort to read a dial now, and going for digits.
Anyway, he doesn't wear his watch--a fairly basic analog Timex--anymore, and has requested a "simple watch."
Most of the digitals I can find are bothersome, complex things with heart monitors or lap counter...all kinds of nonsense.
Much to my shock, The Alzheimer Store does not carry a simple large number digital watch. Amazon carries the complicated ones. Another company that carries dementia products contacted me recently about advertising on my site - I will check with them.
My dh still reads his analog watch, and can usually tell me what time it is, although the time means nothing to him. I've given up trying to explain why 2 pm is an inappropriate time for me to cook dinner and 4 pm not a good time to go to bed. But I did have to exchange his leather band for a stretchy metal one because he couldn't deal with the buckle anymore.
That company I mentioned didn't have one either. I also looked up children's digital watches, because I figured they wouldn't have complicated heart monitors and pedometers on them, but the faces were too small.
Jeanette: My DH still reads his analog watch, too. Interesting to read that time means nothing to him because mine is the same way. Only mine gets out of bed at 11-12, won't breakfast until 2 pm and goes to bed at 1 a.m. When I ask him why he does this, he says he's retired and no longer has to do anything by the clock. Needless to say, the day is half over before he can really do anything, because he doesn't step away from the table until almost 4. Guess what usually happens around dinnertime.
I wish I could find a simple watch too... one that says Morning, afternoon, evening, and night . It sure would simplify my life... my dw cannot read an analog clock/
a couple yrs ago i got DH the talking watch from AZhearing.com. they have lots to choose from very low pricing and even have the low vision large dials for vision impaired regular type watch. when DH could no longer tell time or see the dial this was a good option. just press a button and the time is said out loud. of course he pressed it all the time, so beware. it can be a fun toy for them as well. divvi
No, I'd checked all the alzstore and other "independent living" supplies, which really ought to have such a thing, you'd think. We ended up with a basic Timex digital, from Kohl's, with a basic time readout and smaller date. Interesting thing is, he thinks he's still fine with analogs, and would point out a big-faced Timex and say "how about that one," but I was wary so I sneakily tested him. "Let's see which faces are easiest to read," I said, and asked him to tell me the time from a variety of the watches in the case. He could tell me the digital time right off, but every time I pointed to an analog, he'd look at it and just sort of hang, like a stuck computer. He doesn't realize, apparently, that the difference between the "easy to read" faces and the hard ones is that the easy ones are digital.