Water level indicator with beeping alarm, for pouring hot drinks without burning your self

Audible subscription for audiobooks

An echo dot so she can ask Alexa the time and weather and play the radio on it or make phone calls from it. Easy to set up, easy to use and she'll feel less lonely and isolated.

In what part of Germany you're in? Get in touch with $1 a communities for low vision and blind in Germany theres 3 month small payment fee for membership but you get lawyer help, price reductions for helpful aids, community meetings for support and special events, help with arranging aid in professional training, she will get monthly magazine in special CD form DAISY still popular in elderly here in Germany and device to play it can be fully financed by Krankenkasse.

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Fill out papers for Schwerbehindertenausweis - disability ID if she has it already it has to be updated.
Does she has any vision left?
Use tactile bright neon marking points for buttons. Does she likes books? Buy her cheap CD player and mark buttons: play, pause, back, next, open CD. Nowadays audiobooks on CDs are quite cheap sometimes in KIKK I find lonely audiobook for only 0,50€! Burn audiobooks to CDs. Use converters to make ebooks into audiobooks.
I doubt she would be able to learn any modern touch based device like a tablet or smartphone its easy to us but for elderly its pure magic and too much steps to remember with awakened gestures. There are courses for elderly but I doubt their quality and they're for people with good vision.
I'm from Germany too.

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My mum (81) and I have a genetic condition which causes us to slowly lose our sight. She is now severely sight impaired (some peripheral vision but very blurry) and I was diagnosed with the first stages three years ago. I'm only 34 so I have time yet.

So, we're learning braille together. We're starting g with basics and playing cards. She loves to play card games but right now she can't at all, so this will bring her some joy back.

She also has an audible account connected to an echo dot. I download new books and she uses voice control.

I've also bought her some talking kitchen scales so she is enjoying baking new things.

She can just about crochet by feel but is finding it increasingly hard, so I've been investigating finger knitting projects.

Other than that, it's small independence things she misses most, making a cuppa, reading a recipe. Just watch where she struggles most and work from there
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Most countries have at least one library for blind people with thousands of audio books. Libraries normally provide devices to play them that are easy to use with large, tactilely discernible buttons. If you tell us where you are, we can give give you information about the accessible-format library in your area.


If she enjoyed movies and TV before she lost her vision, she might enjoy audio description, which is an additional audio track that describes the visual aspects of movies so that she can easily follow the story. It's available on standard TV, DVDs and Blu-Rays and streaming services.


Some blind people also do knitting and crocheting. If this was something she did before her vision loss, she might be able to continue doing it with just some small adjustments.

It's important that she keep physically active. Depending on how COVID-19 is in your part of the world, you might want to help her get some orientation and mobility training so that she can learn to walk independently again. Once she can travel safely and confidently, she can become part of her community again, seeing her friends and going to all the places she used to visit.

She should also get some training in the nonvisual techniques for performing independent living tasks. Again, if you tell us where you are, we can tell you where you should contact.

An audiobook reader!

Alcohol, lots of it.

Many books are available in audio through the Library of Congress. She may be especially interested in books on others' experiences with blindness, such as memoirs by blind authors. Check this out: $1